America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization: A new investigation into the ancient apocalypse

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Small Spanish settlements eventually grew to become important cities, such as San Antonio, Albuquerque, Tucson, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The Southern Colonies built an agricultural system on slave labor, enslaving millions from Africa for this purpose.

These urban agglomerations are observed at their largest and most productive in Detroit–Windsor and San Diego–Tijuana and experience large commercial, economic, and cultural activity. American Evangelicals affected by the Awakening added a new emphasis on divine outpourings of the Holy Spirit and conversions that implanted new believers with an intense love for God. There is a significant minority of Indigenous Americans and Asians among other less numerous groups. Roger Williams opposed Winthrop's treatment of Native Americans and religious intolerance, and established the colony of Providence Plantations, later Rhode Island, on the basis of freedom of religion. Other French-speaking locales include the Province of Ontario (the official language is English, but there are an estimated 600,000 Franco-Ontarians), the Province of Manitoba (co-official as de jure with English), the French West Indies and Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, as well as the U.Panama and Costa Rica have a significantly higher Human Development Index and GDP than the rest of the Central American nations. According to paleontologist Peter Dodson, this is primarily due to stratigraphy, climate and geography, human resources, and history.

The Declaration of Independence presented arguments in favor of the rights of citizens, stating that all men are created equal, supporting the rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, and demanding the consent of the governed. However, they share with the United States the establishment of post-independence governments that are federated representative republics with written constitutions dating from their founding as nations.Roosevelt implemented his New Deal programs, including relief for the unemployed, support for farmers, social security, and a minimum wage. The Adenans were absorbed into the Hopewell tradition, a powerful people who traded tools and goods across a wide territory. North America occupies the northern portion of the landmass generally referred to as the New World, the Western Hemisphere, the Americas, or simply America, which, in many countries, is considered a single continent [40] [41] [42] with North America a subcontinent. Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army on December 23, 1783. Much of the area was in fact dominated by indigenous peoples, which did not recognize the claims of Spain, France, or the U.

Some grew to be the size of cities, with Pueblo Bonito along the Chaco River in New Mexico once consisting of 800 rooms. Integration of Central American economies occurred under the signing of the Central American Common Market agreement in 1961; this was the first attempt to engage the nations of this area into stronger financial cooperation. a b c d e Depending on the definition, Panama could be considered a transcontinental country while the ABC islands ( Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao) and Trinidad and Tobago could be considered either parts of North America or South America. In a geologic sense, Bermuda is not part of the Americas, but an oceanic island that was formed on the fissure of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge over 100 million years ago (mya). The Pan-American Highway route in the Americas is the portion of a network of roads nearly 48,000km (30,000mi) in length which travels through the mainland nations.Traditionally the largest megaregion has been considered the Boston-Washington, DC Corridor, or the Northeast, as the region is one massive contiguous area. The new government reflected the prevailing republican ideals of guarantees of individual liberty and of constraining the power of government through a system of separation of powers.

In 1776, in Philadelphia, the Second Continental Congress declared the independence of the colonies as the "United States". The first permanent English settlement was in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, followed by additional colonial establishments on the east coast from present-day Georgia in the south to Massachusetts in the north, forming the Thirteen Colonies of British America. The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC.

Precipitated by the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860, the Civil War began as the southern states seceded from the Union to form their own pro-slavery country, the Confederate States of America. Canada and the United States are the wealthiest and most developed nations on the continent followed by Mexico, a newly industrialized country.