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The English pilgrims travelled to America
The pilgrims sailed from England to America the New World, on the ship the Mayflower. The pilgrims left England bacause they wanted religious and political freedom. -
Native Americans
The pilgrims met a Native Americans for the firts time and he introduced them to his tribe. The Native Americans taught the pilgrims how to grow corn, beans and pumpkins. -
Live in the New World
The British had 13 colonies on the east coast of North America and about two and a half million colonists lived there. But France and Spain also owned big areas of land in North America and wanted to influence the New World -
The colonists didn't want to pay taxes to the British goverment for the war.
The bristish won the war and got some of French land. But then, the British goverment asked for taxes from the colonists to pay for the war. The colonists thought this was ridiculous bacause they didn't have representative in British goverment and they refused to pay the taxes. -
The colonies declared independence from Great Britain.
Their leaders published the Declaration of Independence on 4th July, 1776. The colonists led by GEORGE WASHINGTON, fought many long, difficult battles. In the end, they defeated the British and signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783. -
Thomas Jefferson bought land to the west of the colonies of Napoleon.
The french still owned some land to the west of the colonies. In 1803, the French Emperor Napoleon offered to sell the lan to the United States for $15 million. The president, Thomas Jerfferson, accepted the offer and signed the Louisiana Purchase Agreement. -
US Goverment
The US Goverment created the first Indian territory in the area now called Oklahoma. They forced more than 15.000 Cherokee people to leave theirs homes in Georgia and walk 1.600 kilometres to their new terrritory. -
The American Civil War (1861-1865)
1861: The southhas got their Confederacy. It's got 11 vstates now. Richmond, in Virginia, they think they're a different nation from the Union in the north. Confederate soldiers attacked a fort called Fort Sumter yesterday.
1864: Thousands of people are dead. The war can't continue for long because the Confederates are losing.
1865: More than 600.000 Americans are dead. Now, the slaves are free and the country is one nation.
