United States History, In A Nutshell
United States history properly begins with the landing of Juan Ponce de Leon, who landed in Florida in 1513. While Christopher Columbus is often credited with discovering the United States, but he did not make landfall in any U.S. state, but in Puerto Rico. We are not certain if John Cabot landed in New England in 1498, so Ponce de Leon must be given credit for discovering the continental U.S. United States history began with the establishment and consolidation of thirteen British colonies along the eastern coast of the continent, beginning in 1607. The United States was not born, however, until these thirteen colonies revolted against the British throne, winning freedom by the American Revolutionary War.
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