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The first of these wrintings were the journals and letters of Christopher Columbus, which recounted his four voyages to the americans. Columbus's had many adventures. Christopher columbus sailed the ocean blue.
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The first permanent colony was established at Jamestown.
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Puritan settlers belived themselves chosen by God to create a new order in America. Puritans' values directed every aspect of their lives.
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William Wood of Massachusetts Bay Colony noted that the Native Americans "tood the first ship they saw for a walking island, the mast to be a tree, the sail white clouds."
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Edward Taylor and Anne Bradstreet saw poetry as a mean of exploring the relationship between the indiviual and God. Bay Pslam Book, The Bibles Pslams were rewritten to fit the rhyms of familiar Puritains hymns
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The dutch found Cape Town on the Southern Tip of South Africa
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The Puritan's Victory in King Philip's War ends Native American resistance in New England colonies
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During the time of the Saleam witch trials many innocent people were put to death.
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The colonial population reaches about a half million, Boston's population is 12,000.
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English colonies stretched all along the Atlantic coast. Once rooted in North American Soil, the colonies became increasingly self-reliant and practiced local self-rule.
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French alled with Native American to drive the British out of North America, they supported England econmically by expotring raw materials to the homeland and impoerting Britain's manufactured goods.
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Made people think.
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The colonies declared themselves to be "free and independent". Fought and defeated one of the greatest military powers on earth to turn their declaration into a reality. remarkable minds of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and other colonial thinks put timeless words to this experiment.
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Two thousand pamphalers were published.
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The constitution was approved,and the United states of American was born.