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All About the USA

By Lucia_19

  • 1620

    1620
    On 6th September, 1620, a group of 102 pilgrims sailed from England to America, “The New World” on the ship the Mayflower.

  • 1621

    1621
    The pilgrims met a Native American for the first time and he introduced them to his tribe.

  • 1750s

    1750s
    The British had 13 colonies on the east coast of North America and about two and a half million colonists lived there.

  • 1754-1763

    1754-1763
    The British army and the colonists fought the French over land in North America.

  • 1776

    1776
    The colonies declared independence from Great Britain and their leaders published the Declaration of Independence on this date.

  • 1803

    1803
    The French Emperor Napoleon offered to sell the land to the Unated States for $15 million.

  • 1830

    1830
    The US government created the first Indian territory in the area now called Oklahoma.

  • 1848

    1848
    The country extended from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

  • 1860

    1860
    The people in the north live in towns, but in the south, they live in plantations and own slaves.

  • 1861

    1861
    The south has got their Confederacy.

  • 1864

    1864
    Thousand of people are dead and both the people in the north and the south are suffering.

  • 1865

    1865
    Today, General Robert E. Lee, the Confederate army leader, surrendered to General Ulysses Grant, the Union army leader.