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The Confederate army leader, surrendered the Union army leader. More than 600.000 Americans died. The slaves were free and the country was one nation.
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Thousands of people were dead. Both the people in the north and the south were suffrering. The Confederates were losing.
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The south had got their Confederacy. It had got 11 states. They thinked there were a different nation from the Union in the nort. Confederate soldiers attacked a Union fort called Fort Sumter
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The people in the north lived in towns, but in the south, they lived on plantation and own slaves. The plantation owners wanted to keep their slaves, but the people in the north want to abolish slavery. They say it was cruel.
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The country extended from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
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The French Emperor Napoleon offered to sell the land to the United States for $15 million
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In the end, they defeated the British and signed the Treaty of Paris. They called their new nation the United States of America
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The British army and the colonists fought the French over land in North America. The British won the war and got some of the French land
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The British had 13 colonies on the east coast of North America and about two and a half million colonist lived there
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A group of 102 pilgrims sailed fron England to America on the ship the Mayflower
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The pilgrims saw land in the distance. They were very excited because their journey was near the end
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The pilgrims met a Native American for the first time and he introduced them to his tribe
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The colonies declared independence from Great Britain. Their leaders published the Declaration of Independence on this date
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The US Government crated the first Indian territory in the area now called Oklahma