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Chapter Four American History Pre-Columbian period North Americas Moundbuilder Culture A Mississippian priest, with a ceremonial flint mace. Artist Herb Roe, based on a repousse copper plate. The earliest inhabitants of the United States： arrived in Alaska by crossing the Bering land bridge, at least 14,000 – 30,000 years ago. ancestors to modern Native Americans in the United States and Alaskan Native peoples, as well as all indigenous土著的 peoples of the Americas. thirteen colonies of Great Britain located along the Atlantic seaboard. On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence American Revolutionary War The Philadelphia Convention on September 17, 1787 ：Constitution The Bill of Rights In the 19th century, the United States acquired land from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Russia, and annexed the Republic of Texas and the Republic of Hawaii. the American Civil War of the 1860s. the end of legal slavery in the United States. By the 1870s, the national economy was the worlds largest. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the countrys status as a military power. In 1945, the United States emerged from World War II as the first country with nuclear weapons. Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union left the United States as the sole superpower超级大国. Native Americans and European settlers Indigenous people: 12,000 and as many as 40,000 years ago The first successful English settlements were the Virginia Colony in 1607 and the Pilgrims Plymouth Colony in 1620. The 1628 chartering of the Massachusetts Bay Colony resulted in a wave of migration; Colonial period殖民地时期 Many new immigrants were indentured servants契约奴隶—some two-thirds of all Virginia immigrants between 1630 and 1680. By the turn of the century, African slaves were bonded labor. With the 1729 division of the Carolinas and the 1732 colonization of Georgia, the thirteen British colonies were established. Formation of the United States of America (1776–1