HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
                     HISTORY OF THE 
UNITED STATES
Alabama Claims
• Alabama claims, maritime grievances of 
the United States against Great Britain, 
accumulated during and after the 
American Civil War (1861–65). 
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Alaska Purchase
• Alaska Purchase, (1867), acquisition by 
the United States from Russia of 586,412 
square miles (1,518,800 square km) of 
land at the northwestern tip of the North 
American continent, comprising the 
current U.S. state of Alaska.
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American Colonies
• American colonies, also called thirteen 
colonies or colonial America, the 13 
British colonies that were established 
during the 17th and early 18th centuries 
in what is now a part of the eastern 
United States. 
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The American Civil Rights 
Movement
• The resistance movement began in the 
1940s and intensified in the 1950s and 
’60s, when civil rights as a concept was 
sweeping the globe, but it was forced 
underground as most of its leaders were 
imprisoned, and it did not regain strength 
until the 1980s.
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Founding Fathers
• Founding Fathers, the most prominent 
statesmen of America’s Revolutionary 
generation, responsible for the successful 
war for colonial independence in the 
United States. 
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Great Depression
• Great Depression, worldwide economic 
downturn that began in 1929 and lasted 
until about 1939.
• The Great Depression caused drastic 
declines in output, severe unemployment, 
and acute deflation in almost every 
country of the world.
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Great Migration
• Great Migration, in U.S. history, the 
widespread migration of African 
Americans in the 20th century from rural 
communities in the South to large cities 
in the North and West. 
• At the turn of the 20th century, the vast 
majority of black Americans lived in the 
Southern states.
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Great Famine
• Great Famine, also called Irish Potato 
Famine, Great Irish Famine, or Famine of 
1845–49, famine that occurred in Ireland 
in 1845–49 when the potato crop failed in 
successive years. 
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African Americans
• Black slaves played a major, though 
unwilling and generally unrewarded, role 
in laying the economic foundations of the 
United States—especially in the South. 
• Their rights were severely limited, and 
they were long denied a rightful share in 
the economic, social, and political 
progress of the United States.
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The Civil War Era
• The extension of slavery to new 
territories had been a subject of national 
political controversy since the Northwest 
Ordinance of 1787 prohibited slavery in 
the area now known as the Midwest. 
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