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The piligrims went to America
On 6th September,1620 a group of 120 pilgrims sailed from England to América,"the New Wordl".The pilgrims left England.The long, difficult journey across the Atlantic Ocean continued for 65 days.Early on 9th November,1620, the pilgrims saw land in the distance saw land in the distance.The first winter was very cold and 45people died from the extreme temperatures and from hunger. -
The Native Americans taught the piligrims how to grow corn
In March 1621, the piligrims met a Native American and he introduced them to his tribe.The Native Americans taught the piligrims how to grow corn beans and pumpkins. After this, life became betteer for the pilgrims. After this, life became better for the piligrims.
Other people wanted to try life in the New World and many immigrants moved there. By the 1750s, the British had 13 colonies and about two and a half million colonissts lived there.But France and Spain wanted to influence the New World -
The defeat of the British
On 4th July, 1776, the colonies declared independence from Great Britain. Their leaders published the Declaration of Independence on this date. Then the fighting started. The colonists, led by George Washington, fought many long, difficult battles. In the end, they defeated the British and signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783. They called their new nation the United States of America (USA). -
The Expansion and the Civil War
The French owned land west of the colonies,In 1808, Napoleon sold land to the US for $15 million.Thomas Jefferson and signed the agreement. The size of the country doubled and people moved west. By 1848, the country stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. As the new world expanded, Americans began to suffer. In the 1830s the government created its 1st territory. They forced 15,000 Cherokees to leave their homes and trek to their new territory, 4,000 Cherokees died on the way -
Problems in the United States
Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States.He wants to end slavery. The people of the South want to leave the Union and have their own nation, called the Confederate States of America, or the Confederacy, but Lincoln wants to keep the country together. -
The south has eleven states
The south has got their Confederacy. It's got 11 states now. They think they're a different nation from the Union in the north, Confederate soldiers attaked a Union fort called Fort Sumter yesterday. -
People from the north and south die
Thousands of people from both North and South died, the Confederates are losing and the Union has few soldiers. -
The end
General Robert E. Surrendered to General Ulysses Grant is the leader of the Union Army, Here was the end of the war but a lot of Americans died, the slaves are free and the country is a union,