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Columbus founded America, but he didn't know what he actually discovered.
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A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, by Thomas Harriot showded the new way of life in the colonies.
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Samuel de Champlain wrote about the Native Iroquois and the New England people.
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The first colony in North America was Jamestown.
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The first slaves came from Africa to the colonies. These slaves started taking the place of indentured servants.
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The Bible's psalms were made to fit the rythms of the Puritan church. This was titled the Bay Psalm Book.
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Anne Bradstreet wrote The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, and it was the first book by a woman published in North America.
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William Penn, after religios persecution for being a Quaker, founded Pennsylvania with a charter from the king. Later these Quakers show an opposition to slavery.
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The Wonder of the Invisible World was published by Cotton Mather. This was to defend the people in the Salem Witch Trials.
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Jonathan Edwards gave his "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon, and many people say this is what exemplifies the movements of the Great Awakening.
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From 1759-1763 the French and Indian War was fought. The French and many Native Americans pushed the British out of colonial America.
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Pamphlets were made by printing presses in America, and these sparked the people into revolution.
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The Boston Tea Party went against the British and their taxes by dumping high priced tea. The Revolutionary War began in 1775.
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The colonial Americans defeated Great Britian, and became a free nation with their establishment of the Declaration of Independance.
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All of the 13 colonies agreed with the Constitution and the United States of America began.