The articles were debated for more than a year July — November before being sent to the states for ratification on November 15th. They were finally ratified and came into force on March 1st, If you believe the age of the United States should be counted from when the constitution, then the age of the United States is years-old. The Constitution was finally ratified by the ninth state New Hampshire — holding everyone back… on 21 June and came into force In its 7 articles , it embodies the doctrine of the separation of powers, the concepts of federalism, and the process of ratification.
If you believe the age of the United States should be counted from the end of the Civil War , then the United States is only years old! During the Civil War, the Union ceased to exist as the southern states seceded. So why would you do that with a country? Of all the fast-food chains, the most iconic is MacDonalds.
A new restaurant opens every The age of the United States can be measured in many different ways, but the generally accepted consensus is that the United States of America is years-old and counting. Accessed November 12, 2. This is the most informative article I have read about American history. I am a college student.
We mention these two only because we have seen them pop up in newspaper articles recently. They're thoroughly discredited, so we'll leave it at that. Well, here at VOA, we are trying to tell the story of America.
And what is clear is that America was a melting pot hundreds of years before the Statue of Liberty began urging the world, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
In fact, the entirety of North and South America are a polyglot of cultures stretching back before recorded history. And people have been coming here ever since, chasing a better life, abundant food, water and opportunity. Kevin Enochs is an award-winning content creator who has been explaining the intricacies of the natural world to television and online audiences for over 20 years. Load more comments. Search Search.
Home United States U. Africa 54 - November 11, VOA Africa Listen live. VOA Newscasts Latest program. VOA Newscasts. Previous Next. October 10, PM. Kevin Enochs. See comments Print. Before then, the continent was called Laurentia on its journey back and forth across the equator, as it joined and was separated from supercontinents.
Over billions of years, whether Laurentia or North America, the continent took its form through many spectacular collisions and massive rifts. Here's a walk through the geologic history of North America. The central core of present-day North America is its craton, the oldest, thickest part of the continent. While parts of the craton peek out in Greenland and Canada, in the U. The rocks here are more than two billion years old in places, andwere assembled through time as smaller microcontinents and terranes, or fragments of crustal material, crashed together.
About million years ago, the craton, then named Laurentia, was part of a supercontinent called Rodinia. Experts believe that as much as 90 percent of the American Indian population may have died from illnesses introduced to America by Europeans. This means that only one in ten Natives survived this hidden enemy. Their descendants are the 2. New trade goods represented another big change that European explorers and colonists brought to American Indians. Soon after meeting their European visitors, Indians became very interested in things that the colonists could provide.
In a short time, the Indians began using these new materials and products in their everyday lives. Native hunters were eager to trade prepared deer hides and other pelts for lengths of colored cloth. Metal tools such as axes, hoes, and knives became valuable new resources.
Soon American Indian men put aside their bows and arrows for European firearms , powder, and lead shot. Trade items like metal pots often were cut up and remade into new tools or weapons. The desire to get European goods changed ancient trading patterns. The tradition of simple hunting for food began to become less important than getting animal hides to trade.
Soon American Indians depended on European items for daily needs. Colonial traders also brought rum , and this drink caused many problems for some tribes. New trade goods brought from across the Atlantic Ocean changed American Indian lives forever. A third big change connected to this new trade was slavery. Europeans needed workers to help build houses and clear fields.
They soon realized that they could offer trade goods like tools and weapons to certain American Indian tribes that would bring them other Indians captured in tribal wars. These captured Indians were bought and sold as slaves. You might think that Africans brought to America were the only enslaved people. It is surprising to learn that before in the Carolinas, one-fourth of all enslaved people were American Indian men, women, and children.
Before the port city of Charleston shipped out many Native slaves to work in the Caribbean or to be sold in northern cities like Boston. Slavery led to warfare among tribes and to much hardship. Many tribes had to move to escape the slave trade, which destroyed some tribes completely. In time, the practice of enslaving Native peoples ended.
However, it had greatly affected American Indians of the South and the Southwest. Many big changes happened to the first Americans soon after Europeans met them. But Indian people survived diseases, huge shifts in their cultures, and even the destructive slave trade.
They are now greatly outnumbered by the descendants of the European colonists, but their strong presence honors their distant ancestors—those earliest of American explorers. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium.
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