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After being decline by many countries Spain said they would fund Christopher Columbus expedition to the new world.
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Early English Settlers would right back to england amd describe their difficulties with living in the new world. One of the most influential writings was "A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia" by Thomas Harriot
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After Watching Spain explore to the new world other countries such as the French and the Dutch wanted to explore too! So they sent out the "Father of New France" Samuel de Champlain.
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The first permanent colony in America was Jamestown in 1607.
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The Puritans wrote the first published book in the North American colonies, "Bay Psalm Book" in 1640. Which the Bible Psalms was rewritten to fit the Puritans hymns.
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Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet poems refleted for love for her family. Her book of poetry, "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America", was the first woman in North America to publish a book.
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In the 1700s the the intellectual thinking of europeans was called the Enlightenment. These thoughts consist of the power of govenment and citizens basic rights and liberties.
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At the same time of the Enlightenment the great awakening was taking place. The Great awakening emphasized the rebirth in religious ideas.
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Colonies established stretched along the eastern coast of the Americas.
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War faught between the French and Great britain over the ohio river valley.
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During the Enlightenment Patrick Henry spoke to Delegates at the second Virginia Convention in 1775 stating his famous line "but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death"
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Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet entitled "Common Sense" which fueled the colonist to rovlt against the British.
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The Second Continental Congress adopts the declaration of independence.
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British gets defeated at Yorktown which concludes the American Revolution.
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U.S. Constitution was approved.
