BINA KARYA PRATAMA

Having long been a British colony, the United States became independent on July 4, 1776 after fighting against the British. July 4, then celebrated as the anniversary of the United States who later embraced the principles of democracy and republican form of government.

American history is the collective history of North America, Central America, the Caribbean and South America. American history begins with human migration from Asia during the Ice Age. The group is isolated from the "Old World" until the arrival of Europeans in the 10th century and the 15.

Native American ancestral hunters and gatherers who migrated to North America. The most popular theory states that migrants come to America via the Bering Land Bridge, Beringia, now the Bering Strait.

North America from 1750 to 2008.

Dianggal advanced civilization in America is: Cahokia, Zapotec, Toltek, Olmek, Maya, Aztec, Purepecha, Chimor, and Inka.

United States is made up of 13 former British colony after the American Revolution after the declaration of independence on July 4, 1776. At its origin, its political structure was a confederation. But after a long debate and the formation of the American Constitution, the colony was finally agreed to form alliance countries.

In the 19th century, U.S. forces spread across the continent of North America. Through coercion, military force and diplomacy, the United States obtained many other states inside and outside the country such as Cuba and the Philippines. Even so, this country experienced the worst social problems. In an effort to develop the white people's territory, the native Indians have been victimized. Through military force, destruction, removal of the reservation as well as regional development, the native Indians had been removed. In the south, there's still the system of slavery with the blacks as second class citizens. Discrimination against colored people is one of the causes of civil war between the states-states of North and South. Although the system of slavery had been abolished after the defeat of Southern states, racial discrimination continue to reign so that the mid-20th century.

During that era, the country is moving forward into a world industrial power, which berterusan so into the 20th century, known as the American Century or the glories of the American Century. In this century, the expanding American influence in the international arena and become the leading center of innovation and technology in the world at that time. Some of the donated technology, including phone, television, computer, Internet, nuclear weapons, airplanes and space trips.

This country has experienced some bitter experiences such as the American Civil War (1861-1865) and the collapse of a bad economy as "Great Depression" (1929-1939) who not only hit the U.S. in fact almost the entire world. Recent experience is the most pathetic attacks 9 / 11 on 11 September 2001 at the World Trade Center, New York, where nearly three thousand people were killed due to terrorist attacks.

In terms of history, this country has been involved in several major world wars, the War of 1812 against England, and also with England berpakta during World War I and World War II. In the 1960s Americans were involved in the Cold War against another great power as well as the influence that Soviet communism. In an effort to stem the spread of communism in Asia, the United States in the Korean War, Vietnam and recently in Afghanistan. After the Soviet collapse and disintegration, the U.S. got into an economic and military strength of the strongest in the world. During the 1990s, the United States proclaimed itself as the world police and army action in Kosovo, Haiti, Somalia and Liberia, and the First Gulf War against Iraq that invaded Kuwait. After the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 at the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the U.S. launched a counterattack against the Taliban in Afghanistan and dropping the country there and in 2003 launched the Second Gulf War against Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein's regime.