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The New World
102 piligrims sailed from England to America -
Sighting of land
The piligrims saw land in the distance -
Meeting Native American
The piligrims met a Native American for the first time and he introduced them in his tribe -
Others countries wanted the New World
The British had 13 colonies on the east coast of America, but France and Spain also owned big areas of land in Noth America. -
The independence from Great Britain
The colonies declared independence from Great Britain. -
Treaty of Paris
George Washington, defeated the British and signed the Treaty of Paris.They called their new nation the United States of America (USA) -
Napoleon offered to sell to the Unites States
The French Emperor Napoleon offered to sell the land to the United States. -
The expansion
The country extented from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. -
The American Civil War (Start)
There were problems in America. The people in the north live in towns, but the people in the south, live in planations and with slaves. Now Abraham Lincoln was the president of the USA. The people in south of America want to leave the Union and have their own nation called, Confederate States of America, of the Confederacy. But Lincoln wants to keep the country together. -
Part of a diary (I)
the south has got their Confederacy. It´s got 11 states now. Richmond, in Virginia, is the capital. They think they´re a different nation from the Union fort called Fort Sumter yesterday. -
Part of a diary (II)
This war was terrible. Thousands of people are dead. Both the people in the north and the south are suffering. The war can´t continue for long because the confederates are losing . The have got fewer soldiers than the Union. -
The American Civil War (End)
Today, Genreal Robert E. Lee, the Confederate army leader, surrundered to General Usysses Grant, the Union army leader. More than 600.000 Americans are dead. Now, the slaves are free and the country is one nation. But we´ll never be the same again.