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Between 1763 and 1783, about two thousand pamphlets were publised.
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The first of these writtings were the journals and letters of Christopher Columbus, which recounted his four voyages to the Americans begun in 1492.
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Thomas Harriots, "A brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virgina" was published.
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Most settelers were Puritians
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Samuel de Champlain, the "father of new france", who in the early 1600s wrote vivid accounts of New England and the Iroquios.
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The first permant colony was established in jamestown.
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John Winthrop, wrote "we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us."
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William Wood of Massachusetts Bay Colony noted that the Native Americans"took the first ship they saw for walking island, the mast to be a tree, the sail white clouds."
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The first book issued in the North American colonies was the "Bay Psalm Book" in 1640
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"The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up In America, was the first work by North American woman to be published.
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There was a burst of intellectual energy taking place in Europe that came to be known as enlightenment.
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English colonies strerched all along the Atlantic coast.
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Patrick Henry thundered to the delegates at the second Virginia Convention.
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The colonies declared themselves to be "free and independent"
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Constitution was approved. United states of america was born.