SUMMARRY The USA is in North America. Its boundary is the Atlantic Ocean in the east and the Pacific Ocean in the west. On the northern side is Canada and in the south Mexico.
It is a federal republic of 50 states including Alaska and Hawaii.
The Red Indians, descendants from Asia, now renamed American-Indians were the first inhabitants around 50,000 BC, maybe even earlier, crossing from Siberia to Alaska during the Ice Age. They tried their hardest to stop settlers but colonisation spread like wildfire after the Spanish landed in Florida in 1565 and the English in Virginia in 1607.
The Dutch and French followed. A struggle broke out for supremacy and a Seven Years War followed between Britain and France which ended in 1763. The Treaty of Paris marked the final victory for Britain.
Britain tried to reassert total authorities over the colonies but failed. The FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS met in 1774 to regain the lost rights. The first armed confrontation at LEXINGTON AND CONCORD in 1775 escalated into a full scale revolt. The result was a formal proclamation of the separation of the Thirteen Colonies from Britain in the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IN July 4, 1776.
In 1783 the second Treaty of Paris recognised American Independence. The new state was given legislation by the CONSTITUTION OF THE USA in 1787.
The federal system was established that divided power between central government and the constituent states, with an executive president. George Washington was elected and the first president in 1789.
The new legislature was made up of two houses, the SENATE AND the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. There was also an independent judiciary headed by the SUPREME COURT.
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