What is History of the United States?
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2020}} [[File:US flag 13 stars – Betsy Ross.svg|right|180px|thumb|The flag of the United States during the American Revolution]] '''History''' '''of the United States''' is what happened in the past in the [[United States]], a country in [[North America]]. [[Native American]]s lived in the [[Americas]] for thousands of years. [[English people]] in 1607 went to the place now called [[Jamestown, Virginia]]. Other European [[settler]]s went to the colonies, mostly from [[England]] and later [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]]. [[France]], [[Spain]], and the [[Netherlands]] also colonized North America. In 1775, a war between the [[thirteen colonies]] and Britain began when the colonists were upset over paying taxation to their government in the UK, but were not being given any chance to vote in the UK/British elections, to contribute to how that money was spent. Just after dawn on April 19, 1775, the British attempted to disarm the Massachusetts militia at Concord, Massachusetts{{Citation needed|reason=lack of evidence|date=August 2019}}, thus beginning the war. On July 4, 1776, Founding Fathers wrote the [[United States Declaration of Independence]]. They won the [[American Revolutionary War]] and started a new country. They signed the [[Constitution of the United States|constitution]] in 1787 and the [[United States Bill of Rights|Bill of Rights]] in 1791. General [[George Washington]], who had led the war, became its first president. During the 19th century, the United States gained more land in the West and began to become [[Industrial Revolution|industrialized]]. In 1861, several states in the [[Southern United States|South]] attempted to leave the United States to start a new country called the [[Confederate States of America]]. This caused the [[American Civil War]]. After the war, Immigration resumed. Some Americans became very rich in this [[Gilded Age]], and the country developed one of the largest [[economy|economies]] in the world. In the early 20th century, the Unite