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Christopher Columbus, recounted his four voyages to the Amricas begun in 1492.
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A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia by Thomas Harriot was published.
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Wrote vivid accounts of New England and the Iroquois.
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The first permanent colony was established at Jamestown.
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John Withdrop wrote "we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill.
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William Wood of Massachusetts Bay Colony noted that the Native Americans "took the first ship they saw for a walking island, the mast to be a tree, the sail white clouds."
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The first book was published and it was called Bay Psalm Book.
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There was a burst of intellectual energy taking place in Europe that came to be know as Enlightenment.
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English colonies stretched all along the Atlantic coast.
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When France allied with a number of Native American groups to drive the British out of North America.
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Two thousand Pamphlets were published.
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P.H. thundered to the delegates at the seconds Virginia Convention.
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The colonies decleared themselves to be "free abd independent" and fought and defeated one of the greastest military powers on Earth to turn their declaration into a reality.
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When the Contitution was apporved in 1788, the United States of America was born.