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THE PILGRIM FATHERS
In September 1620 a group of pilgrims sailed from England to America, "The New World", on a ship called the Mayflower. They went to America because they wanted political and religious freedom.The Pilgrims were often ill and hungry and many of them died during the first year and native Americans helped them.This day was called Thanksgiving -
THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
Britain was far away and the people of the colonies started to get angry because they had to pay very high taxes to the British government. In December 1773 a group of men threw 342 boxes of tea into the sea at Boston because they didn't want to pay the British tax on it.the 13 colonies decided to join together to fight the British. On 4th July, 1776, the colonists declared independence from Great Britain. -
The Civil War
The war began because the southern states had black slaves to work in the cotton fields, but slaves weren't allowed in the North. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president. The Republican Party and this party didn't want people to have slaves. The south had a lot of money from selling cotton to Britain, but the North had more men, factories. The North won the war in the end, after many terrible battles. Unfortunately, after the war Lincoln was shot dead.
