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Christopher Comlumbus recounted his four voyages to the Americas
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A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia was published and accompanied by illustrations that helped thousands upong thousands of English readers
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Many settlers were Puritans
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Jamestown- First permanent colony established.
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1634, William Wood of Massachusetts Bay Colony noted that Native Americans "took the first ship they saw for a walking island, the mast to be a tree, the sail white clouds."
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:Bay Psalm Book was the first book issued in the North American colonies.
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The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America was first work by a North American woman to be published
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Enlightenment ideals and Puritan values contributed to country's thirst for independence.
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English colonies stretched along Atlantic coast.
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Britain sent soldiers to fight during French and Indian War
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Two thousand pamphlets were published
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French and Indian War ended
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Patrick Henry thundered to delegates at second Virginia Convention
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Colonies declared themselves to be 'free and independent" and fought plus defeated one of greatest military powers.
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The constitution was approved and U.S. was born