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The Beginning of America

By saraburgin
  • First People Migrated to North America
    12,600 BCE

    First People Migrated to North America

    It is theorized that the first people of North America from Asia across glaciers that have since melted.
  • Leif Erikson Reached North America
    1000

    Leif Erikson Reached North America

    LEIF ERIKSON, a Norse explorer from Iceland, was the first known European to have set foot on continental North America (excluding Greenland), before Christopher Columbus.
  • Columbus Reached North America
    1492

    Columbus Reached North America

    Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain to North America. He returned several times to take slaves, gold, and spices. Contrary to inaccurate lessons of history, he was not the first explorer to North America, and did not discover America, since it was inhabited for thousands of years by native people.
  • Stamp Tax

    Stamp Tax

    They were English subjects, weren’t they? Didn’t English subjects have to obey the English government? So in 1765 a stamp tax was laid on certain printed items in America. From Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? p. 360
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    Instead, on July 4, 1776, Americans declared their independence.
    Naturally King George was annoyed. But he wasn’t worried. How
    could children, however rebellious, succeed against a firm father? From Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? p. 363
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