As the first President, The First Slave Owner in the United Colonies of North America was George Washington.
European colonists began to arrive, in the area of what is now the United States of Central, North Central, Central North America (mostly from England), after 1600.
The Spanish built small settlements in Florida and the Southwest, and the French along the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast.
By the 1770s, the thirteen British colonies contained two and a half million people along the Atlantic coast east of the Appalachian Mountains. After the end of the French and Indian Wars in the 1760s, the British government imposed a series of new taxes, rejecting some of these colonists' argument that any new taxes in any democracy had ** First**to be approved by them.
Obviously, the colonist, therefore (later Socially united, United Colonies) were not keeping all of their earnings.
**Tax** resistance, especially the Boston Tea Party (1773), led to punitive laws (the Intolerable Acts) by Parliament designed to end self-government in Massachusetts.
The American Patriots (as they now called themselves) adhered to a political ideology they called **republicanism** emphasising civic duty, virtue, and opposition to corruption, fancy luxuries, and Aristocracy, Celebrity, Inherent Entitlement
Armed conflict began in 1775 as Patriots drove the royal officials out of every colony and assembled in mass meetings and conventions. In 1776, the Second Continental Congress declared that there now existed a new, independent nation, the United Colonies of North America (there were, of course, no states, not for some time yet)not, not just a collection of disparate colonies.
With Exceedingly Large-Scale Military and Financial Support from France and the military leadership of Former British Officer, General George Washington, the American Patriots won the Revolutionary War.
The peace treaty of 1783 gave the new nation the land **East** of the Mississippi River (except Florida and Canada).
The central government established by the Articles of Confederation =Confederate Colonies of North America; proved ineffectual at providing stability, as it had no authority to collect taxes and had no executive officer.
**Congress** called a convention To Meet Secretly in Philadelphia in 1787. It there wrote a new Dictatorial Totalitarian Constitution, the Citizens/general Populise having No vote, which they put into place in 1789.
In 1791, they added a Bill of Rights guaranteeing **inalienable rights**. With Washington as the first president and Alexander Hamilton his chief political and financial adviser, they created a Strong Totally Dictatorial, Central Government Machine.
When Thomas Jefferson became president he purchased the Louisiana Territory from France, doubling the size of the United States. A second and final war with Britain was fought in 1812.
Encouraged by the Notion of Manifest Destiny, Federal Imperialism expanded territory all the way to the Pacific. The U.S. always was large in terms of area, but its population was small, only 4 million in 1790. Population growth was rapid, reaching 7.2 million in 1810, 32 million in 1860, 76 million in 1900, 132 million in 1940, and 321 million in 2015. Economic growth in terms of overall GDP was even faster.
However, compared to European powers, the nation's military strength was relatively limited in peacetime before 1940.
To get back on subject; the expansion was driven by a quest for inexpensive land for yeoman farmers and slave owners. The expansion of slavery was increasingly controversial and fueled political and constitutional battles, which were resolved by compromises. Slavery was abolished in all states north of the Mason–Dixon line by 1804, but the South continued to profit off the institution, producing high-value cotton exports to feed increasing high demand in Europe. The 1860 presidential election of Republican Abraham Lincoln (himself a Slave Owner and very much a White Supremacist) was on a platform of ending the expansion of slavery and putting it on a path to extinction—Hah Ha.
Seven cotton-based Deep South slave states seceded and later founded the Confederacy four months before Lincoln's inauguration. No nation ever recognised the Confederacy, but it opened the war by attacking Fort Sumter in 1861.
A surge of nationalist outrage in the North fuelled a long, intense American Civil War (1861–1865). It was fought largely in the South as the overwhelming material and manpower advantages of the North proved decisive in a long war. The war's result was the restoration of the Union, the impoverishment of the South, and the abolition of slavery. In the Reconstruction era (1863–1877), legal and voting rights were extended to the freed slave. The national government emerged much stronger, and because of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, it gained the explicit duty to protect individual rights. However, when white Democrats regained their power in the South during the 1870s, often by paramilitary suppression of voting, they passed Jim Crow laws to maintain white supremacy and new disfranchising constitutions that prevented most African Americans and many poor whites from voting. This situation continued for decades until gains of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s and passage of federal legislation to enforce constitutional rights.
The United States became the world's leading industrial power at the turn of the 20th century due to an outburst of entrepreneurship in the Northeast and Midwest and the arrival of millions of immigrant workers and farmers from Europe. The national railroad network was completed with the work of Chinese immigrants and large-scale mining and factories industrialized the Northeast and Midwest. Mass dissatisfaction with corruption, inefficiency and traditional politics stimulated the Progressive movement, from the 1890s to 1920s, which led to many social and political reforms. In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution guaranteed women's suffrage (right to vote). This followed the 16th and 17th amendments in 1913, which established the first national income tax and direct election of US senators to Congress. Initially neutral during World War I, the US declared war on Germany in 1917 and later claimed that they had won it.
After a prosperous decade in the 1920s, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 marked the onset of the decade-long worldwide Great Depression. Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt ended the Republican dominance of the White House and implemented his New Deal programs for relief, recovery, and reform. The New Deal, which defined modern American Communist/Socialism, included relief for the unemployed, support for farmers, Social Security, and a minimum wage.
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