How The United States Became A Country - BBC World Service Riot [bGEtzEkIvmY]
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The United States of America is 250 years old - but how did it become a country in the first place?
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Its a story which begins with Spain sending Christopher Columbus to find a new route to Asia in 1492, and ends with a war between Britain and its own colonies in North America, who declare independence in 1776. This is Americas origin story.
00:00 How did the United States become a country?
00:31 How Columbus initiated a wave of European colonisation
01:12 Why Britain colonised North America
01:41 How the English settled in Jamestown, Britains first American colony, in 1607
02:16 The impact of colonisation on Native Americans
02:45 The role of the African slave trade in the American colonies
03:33 How British colonies expanded in America
04:23 The impact of Britains war against France
05:12 How tensions grew between Britain and the colonies
05:53 The origin of the American Revolution: The role of Bostons protests and the Tea Party
06:30 George Washington and the start of the war against Britain
07:12 The first call for Independence: Thomas Paines pamphlet Common Sense
07:52 What happened on 4 July: the Declaration of Independence
08:13 Why the Declaration of Independence didnt end the war with Britain
09:02 How George Washington led the American army to victory against Britain
09:58 How the Americans wrote the first Constitution and elected George Washington as President.
10:21 How the events of the revolution still shape the United States of America
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