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his journals were first of the explorer's writings. he recounted his four voyages to the americas.
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published "a brief and true report of the new found land of virginia"
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samuel de champlain wrote vivid accounts of new england and the iroquois.
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first permanent colony
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he wrote "we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. the eyes of all the people are upon us."
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he noted that the native americans "took the first shop they saw for a walking island, the mast to be a tree, the sail white clouds."
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first book issued to the north american colonies
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"the tenth muse lately sprung up in america" was the first work by a north american woman t be published
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burst of intellectual energy taking place in europe
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two thousand of these little books were made from 1763-1783. they became fuel of the revolution.
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"i know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death."
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the colonies declared themselves to be "free and independent"
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when the constitution was aprved the united states of america were born