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The voyage of the Mayflower
On 6th September , 1620 , a group of pilgrims sailed from England to America. -
The pilgrims met Native American
In March 1621 , the pilgrims met a Native American for the first time and he introduced then to his tribe. -
The 13 colonies of Great Britain
In 1750s , the British had 13 colonies on the east of North America and about two a half million colonists lives there. -
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The British army
From 1754 to 1763 , 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. But then , the British government asked for taxes from the colonists to pay for the war. -
The colonies declared the independence
On 4th July , 1776 , the colonies declared independence from Great Britain. -
Expansion and the Civil War
The French still owned come land to the west of the colonies. In 1803 , the French Emperor Napoleon offered to sell the land to the United States for $15 million. -
The US Government
In the 1830s , the US Government created the first Indian territory in the area now called Oklahoma. -
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The American Civil War
In 1861 the south has got their Confederacy. it´s got 11 states now.
In 1865 the General Robert E. Lee , the Confederate army leader surrendered to General Ulysses Grant , the Union army leader. The civil war was terminated. But more than 600,000 Americans are dead.