The American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord when American and British forces clashed on April 19, 1775.

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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. In 1492, the exploratory voyages of Christopher Columbus led to a transatlantic exchange, including migrations of European settlers during the Age of Discovery and the early modern period.

In 1783, after an eight-year attempt to defeat the American rebellion, King George III acknowledged Britain's defeat in the war, leading to the signing of the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783, which solidified the sovereign establishment of the United States. From there, they migrated along the Pacific Coast and into the interior and constructed large multi-family dwellings in their villages, which were used only seasonally in the summer to hunt and fish, and in the winter to gather food supplies. The majority of Caribbean island-nations have national populations under a million, though Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico (a territory of the U. By the 18th century, the American colonies were growing very rapidly as a result of low death rates along with ample supplies of land and food.

Yet as cities grow in these warmer regions of North America, they are increasingly forced to deal with the major issue of water shortages. Numerous indigenous cultures formed, and many saw transformations in the 16th century away from more densely populated lifestyles and towards reorganized polities elsewhere. This pre-Columbian era incorporates all periods in the history of the Americas before the appearance of European influences on the American continents, spanning from the original settlement in the Upper Paleolithic period to European colonization during the early modern period. Nationalists worried that the confederate nature of the union was too fragile to withstand an armed conflict with any adversarial states, or even internal revolts such as the Shays' Rebellion of 1786 in Massachusetts.The 2006 implementation of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) left the future of the CACM unclear. The term Anglo-America is used to refer to the anglophone countries of the Americas: namely Canada (where English and French are co-official) and the U. Similarly, French and French Antillean Creole is spoken in Saint Lucia and the Commonwealth of Dominica alongside English. After Virginia, the second British colony south of New England was Maryland, established as a Catholic haven in 1632. S. Monterrey, a modern city with a significant industrial group, has been regarded as the most Americanized city in Mexico.