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The Voyage of the Mayflower
On 6th September, 1620 a group of 102 pilgrims sailed from England to America, on the ship Mayflower. They wanted religious and political freedom. On 9th November 1620, the pilgrims saw land in the distance. The first winter was very cold and 45 people died from the extreme temperatures and from hunger. In March 1621 the pilgrims met a native American taught the pilgrims how to grow corn, beans and pumpkins. By the 1750s, the Brithish had 13 colonies on the east coast of North of America. -
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`The Declaration of the Indenpendence
From 1754 to 1763 theThe British army and the colonists fought the frech over land in North America. The British won the war the British govvernment asked for taxes from the colonist to pay for the war. The colonists thought this way ridicululous because they didn´t have a representative in the Biritsh gobernment and they refused to pay the taxes. The 13 colonies decided to join together to fight the British. On 4th, July 1776, the colonies declared independence from Great Britian. -
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expansion and the Civil War
The French Emperor Napoleon offered to sell the land to the United States. The president , Thomas Jefferson, accepted the offer and signed the Lousiana Purchase Agreement.
In the 1830s, the US Goverment created the first Indian territory in the area now called Oklahoma. Cherokee people died on the way and they called this journey the ''Trail of Tears''.
By 1848, the country extended from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
