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102 pilgrims begin the journey to America.
6th September 1620 a group of 102 pilgrims sailed from England to America on the ship the Mayflower the pilgrims left England because they wanted religious and political freedom. -
Pilgrims sight America
On November 9, 1620 the pilgrims spotted land.
They were very happy because the trip was about to end.
They also found a habitable land and built a village and had land to grow their own Vegetables.
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The pilgrims met a Native American
The pilgrims met a Native American for the first time and he introduced them to his tribe.the native Americans taught how to grow corn, beans and pumpkins.After this, life become better for the pilgrims. -
The settlement of all in America
Other people wanted to try life in the new world and many immigrants moved there.
By the 1750s the British had Thirteen Colonies on the east coast of North America and about two and a half million colonists lived there.
But France And Spain also owned big areas of land in North America and wanted to influence the new world, too. -
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The war for America. British against French
the British Army and the colonists fought the French over the land in North America and the british won the war -
The Declaration of Independence
The colonies declared the independence of Great Britain.
Their leaders published the declaration of independence.
Colonists led by George Washington fought difficult battles.
In the end they defeated the British and signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783 and they called it the United States of America -
Napoleon sells the land he had left in America
The president Thomas Jefferson accepted the offer and signed the louisiana purchase agreement -
Abraham Lincoln wants to end slavery.
The people in the north live in towns but in the south live on plantations own slaves.
The people in the North want to abolish slavery.
Abraham Lincoln is now the president of the USA and he wants to end slavery.
The people in the south want to leave the union but Lincoln wants to keep the country together. -
The war has begun.
The south has got the Confederacy.
it's got eleven states now.
Richmond is the capital.
Confederate soldiers attacked a union fort called Fort Sumter.
So now they´re at war. -
The war is hard.
The war is horrible thousands of people have died the confederates are losing -
The end of the war
The General Robert E the Conference army leader surrendered to General Ulysses Grant .
That was the end of the war.
And although 600,000 people died, slavery was over and the country became a nation.
