Skriuwer. com: The History of the United States of America, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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America kicked off in foggy Atlantic mists where Mayflower migrants scratched farms from pine barrens, dodging smallpox and Powhatan arrows while Jamestown tobacco kings chained the first Africans to tidewater toil. Revolution's powder keg popped in '76, minutemen sniping redcoats from Lexington hedges, Jefferson's quill scratching independence amid Philadelphia swelter. Westward wagons creaked next-Lewis and Clark charting Missouri bends, forty-niners panning California creeks for nuggets that bankrolled railroads spiking through buffalo plains, Manifest Destiny's boot stomping native trails flat.

Civil strife shredded the seams: Gettysburg's fields soaked red as Lincoln's beard, emancipation papers freeing four million while Reconstruction's promises curdled quick under Klan hoods. Industrial smoke choked Gilded Age skies, robber barons like Rockefeller squeezing oil empires from Pennsylvania dirt, immigrants jamming Ellis docks for sweatshop shifts. World wars yanked the nation global-doughboys slogging Meuse mud, GIs storming Normandy sands-till Cold War chills stocked silos with nukes, McCarthy's lists hunting reds in Hollywood scripts.

Twentieth-century tempests reshaped the ride: King's dream echoing from Lincoln's steps, moon boots bouncing in '69 vacuum, Watergate tapes toppling Nixon's throne. Reagan's shine faded into dot-com booms and busts, 9 / 11's rubble birthing endless wars while Obama's hope cracked glass ceilings. America's no polished eagle-it's a melting pot simmer of migrants and mavericks, proving a ragtag republic can roar across the world's stage.