Main article: History of California through 1899Pre-contact period Main article: Indigenous peoples of CaliforniaDifferent tribes of Native Americans lived in the area that is now California for an es ...
Further information: List of United States military basesChalmers Johnson argues that America's version of the colony is the military base. Chip Pitts argues similarly that enduring U.S. bases in Iraq ...
Thomas Jefferson, in the 1790s, awaited the fall of the Spanish empire until “our population can be sufficiently advanced to gain it from them piece by piece.” In turn, historian Sidney Lens notes t ...
Texas had been one of the Provincias Internas of New Spain, a region known historiographically as Spanish Texas. Though claimed by Spain, it was not formally colonized by them until competing French i ...
Some historians contend that the rebellions in 1837 ought to be viewed in the wider context of the late-18th- and early-19th-century Atlantic revolutions. The American Revolutionary war in 1776, the F ...
Main article: Canadian EnglishIn the 2001 Canadian census, 17,572,170 Canadians indicated that they were English-speaking. As discussed in the Introduction, however, this does not mean that 17.5 milli ...
The following table shows the English-speaking population of Canada's provinces and territories. The data are from Statistics Canada. Figures are given for the number of single responses "English" to ...
Canadian French is an umbrella term for the distinct varieties of French spoken by francophone Canadians: Québécois (Quebec French), Acadian French, Métis French, and Newfoundland French. Unlike Ac ...
The French Canadians get their name from Canada, the most developed and densely populated region of New France during the period of French colonization in the 17th and 18th century. The original use o ...
To balance the number of "slave states" and "free states," the northern region of what was then Massachusetts ultimately gained admittance into the United States as a free state to become Maine. This ...
British losses in the war were about 1,600 killed in action and 3,679 wounded; 3,321 British died from disease. American losses were 2,260 killed in action and 4,505 wounded. While the number of Ameri ...
The British Royal Navy's blockades and raids allowed about 4,000 African Americans to escaped slavery by fleeing American plantations to find freedom aboard British ships, a migration known as the Bla ...
Main article: Origins of the War of 1812Historians have long debated the relative weight of the multiple reasons underlying the United States declaration of war.Honor and the second war of independenc ...
The two principal adversaries in the conflict, Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison, had both been junior participants in the Battle of Fallen Timbers at the close of the Northwest Indian War in 1794. ...
On Saturday, April 30, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase Treaty was signed by Robert Livingston, James Monroe, and Barbé Marbois in Paris. President Jefferson announced the treaty to the American people o ...
