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The voyage of the Mayflower
A group of peregrims sailed grom England to America.The pilgrims left England because they wanted religious and political freedom.It took them sixty-five days to arrive America.Each family built their home, but the first winter was very cold and 45 people died for these. -
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The pilgrims met a Native American
After a few months,in March 1621,the pilgrims met a Native American.The Native Americans taught the pilgrims how to grow corn.beans and pumpkins.
Other people wanted to try life in the New World and many immigrants moved there. By the 1750s, the British had 13 colonies on the east coast of North America and about two and a half million colonist lived there.But France and Spain also owned bigareas of land in North America -
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War between Britain and France
From 1754 to 1763, the British army and the colonist fough French over land in North America.The British won the war and got some of the French land.But then, the british goverment asked for taxes from the colonist to pay for the war.The colonist refused to pay the taxes.The 13colonies to fight the British. -
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Indenpendence of colonies
On 4th July, 1776, the colonies declared indenpendence from Great Britain. Their leaders publised the Declaration of Independence on this date. Then the fighting started. The colonist, led by Geirge Washington, fought many long, difficult battles.In the end, the defeated the British and signed theTreaty of Paris in 1783. They called their new nation the United States of America or USA -
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Expansion
The French still owned some land to the west of the colonies.The French Emperor Napoleon offered the President Thomas Jefferson Louisiana for 15 million,the president accepted the offer and signed the Purchase Agreement.
The Native American population started to suffer.They emigrated to Georgia and died on the way 4.000 Cherokee in ``Trail of Tears´´ -
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Civil War
The Diary of Abraham Lincoln said:
The difference of live between the North and the South is very big in the south are slaves, but in the North there aren't slaves.
Licoln wants to end slavery. The people in the South want leave the Union.But Lincoln wants to keep the country together.
The south has got their Confederacy.It's got 11 states.Richmond,in Virginia,is the capital.They think they're different nation from the Union. His solsierds attacked a Union fort. So now,they're and we're at war