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Christopher Columbus's first writing/ journals and letters that recounting his four voyages to America
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The Report by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, "La Relacion", describing the landscape and people he encountered as well as animas that wer new to Europeans.
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"A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia" by Thomas Harriot was pulished.
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Many of the settlers in the 1600's were Puritans.
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The first pemanent colony was established in Jamestown.
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William Bradford describes his journey across the Atlantic and the Pilgrims' settlement in of "Plymouth Plantation."
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"Bay Psalm Book" is the first book printed in America.
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Anne Bradstreet's book of poetrty " The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, was the first work by a Northern American woamn, to be published.
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Englightment ideals and puritan values contributed to the country's thirst for independence.
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English colonies stretched all along the Atlantic Coast.
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Was the final Colonial War. Also know as; the Seven Years war.
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Between the years 1763 and 1783 two thousand pamphlets were published, defining the American cause against Great Britian, became the currency of the day.
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Patrick Henry thundered to the delegates at the Second Virginia Convention.
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Colonies declared themselves "Free and independent; fought and defeated one of the greatest military powers on earth to turn their declaration into a reality.
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the constitution was approved and the United States of America was born.
