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The first winter was very cold and 45 people died from the extreme temperatures and from hunger. But the pilgrims didn't lose hope. The plantation owners want to keep their slaves, but the people in the north want to abolish slavery.
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A group of the 102 pilgrims sailed from England to America, “the New World”, on the ship the Mayflower.
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The pilgrims saw land in the distance. They were very excited because their journey was near the end.
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In March 1621, the pilgrims met a Native American for the first time and he introduced them to his tribe.
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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 half million colonists lived there.
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The British army and the colonists fought the French over land in North America.
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The French Emperor Napoleon offered to sell the land to the United States for $15 million. The president, Thomas Jefferson, accepted the offer and signed the Louisiana Purchase Agreement.
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The US Government created the first Indian territory in the area now called Oklahoma.
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The country extended from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
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There are problems in our country. The people in the north live in town, but in the south, they live on plantations and own slaves.
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This south has got their Confederacy. It's got 11 states now. Richmond, in Virginia, is the capital.
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This was is terrible! Thousands of people are dead. Both the people in the North and the south are suffering. The war can't continue for long because the Confederates are losing. They have got fewer soldiers than the Union.
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Today, General Robert E. Lee, the Confederate army leader, surrendered to General Ulysses Grant, the Union army leader.