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The first people to ever set foot on the American continents, came over the Bering Strait from Siberia, Asia. -
Plantation owners saw the need for cheap labor, and the first legal slave owner was recognized in 1654.
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Slaves were part of the Trianular Trade that took manufactured goods from England to Africa where they were exhanged for slaves.
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The colonies signed the Decleration of Independence in 1776. It took eight years of conflict, from 1775 to 1783, before the Britain gave the new nation complete independence.
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The United States had a constitution, which was written in 1789 by a group of men called the Founding Fathers and completed with the Bill of Rights in 1791
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Slavery was abolished almost 100 years, after the Second World War. In 1954 African American Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, and jer attesy sparked a bu boycott in Alabama, which lasted over a year.