On the night of April 18, 1775,700 British soldiers marched silently out of Boston. Their orders were to. seize weapons and ammunition that rebellious colonists had stored in Concord, a nearby town. But the colonists wrere warned that the soldiers were coming. Signal lights were hung from the spire of Boston’s tallest church and two […]

I Icnry Ford is famous for making automobiles. But what makes him important is how he made them. Ford began to make automobiles in the 1890S: One day in 1903 he was talking to a friend about the best way to do this. “The real way is to make one like another, as much alike […]

The United States was the strongest country on earth in 1945. Its factories produced half the world’s manufactured goods. It had the world’s biggest air force and navy. And it was the only nation armed with atomic bombs. After the United States came the Soviet Union. Soviet soldiers were the masters of all Europe from […]

————— і———————- The First Americans Christopher Columbus. Л contemporary portrait by Sebastian о del Piomba. At daybreak on the morning of Friday, August 3 1492, an Italian adventurer named Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain to find a new way from Europe to Asia. His aim was to open up a shorter trade route between […]

While Lewis and Clark were crossing the plains and mountains of the American Northwest, an­other expedition was exploring those of the Southwest. The leader of the expedition was a young lieutenant in the American army named Zebulon M. Pike. In November 1806, Pike and his men reached the Rocky Mountains near where the city of […]