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Christopher Columbus sailed on 3 ships; the nina, pinta, and santa maria. He opened the door for spanish exploration.
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Thomas Harriot published a book called "A Brief and True Report of the New England Land of Virginia". It wrote about the areas natural resources and potential to be a colony. It also described the natives. The book gave thousands of English readers a view of what the colonies were like.
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The Puritans were Protestants who wanted to purify the Church of England. Their ideas were unwelcome, so many left for America to escape religious prosecution.
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Phillis Wheatley was a black women who was also a slave. She wrote poem's and letters about equal rights between black and whites. She constantly wrote about freedom and how it was wrong to enslave a fellow human being.
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In 1607, the first British colony is established in the New World. The new colonists were people who came for religious freedom and money. They had a very difficult time surviving because they spent to much time attempting to find gold instead of trying to survive.
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One of the original colonies in America. It was an English colonoy that dealt with tons of death and misfortune. They had lots of conflict with the natives.
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Anne Bradstreet wrote a book of poetry called "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in Amerca". The poems explained how women were treated in the male dominated Puritan society.
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One night in Salem Massachusetts, the reverends daughter started to have convulsions. The doctors only explanation was that it was witchcraft. The girl eventually pointed her finger at 3 women. All 3 were executed and it started an era where over 200 people were tried for witchcraft, and 20 were executed.
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The enlightenment began sometime in the 1700s and it was a bunch of thinking going around Europe. they believed that the people should have a large say in the government. These ideas eventually spread to the colonies.
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The great awakening was a period where people became ecstatic about religion. Preachers like Jonathan Edwards preached to people about rededicating themselves to the original Puritan ideas. It united the colonists.
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The French became allies with a few indian triabes in hopes of driving the British out of North America. After losing many battles, the British sent new leaders to the New World. They allied with the Iroquois indians. After a long war, the British owned everything east of the Missippi river.
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A political meeting where Patrick Henry said his famous words "Give me liverty, or give me death!" he was influenced by the American Enlightenment.
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This was the war between the colonists and the British. The colonists were fighting for independence because they felt like they were being unruled unfairly by Britain.
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Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington were only a few on the men that created one of our countries most important writings. It was a guide line for all the rules and rights citizens have.
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This was a writing that stated the colonists independence from Britain. It was written by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and many other great writers.