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EARLY AMERICA
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1620 PILGRIMS TO PLYMOUTH
English Puritans who fledEngland to escape religiouspersecution.
After a 65-day journey fromSouthampton, England, theylanded in Plymouth Harboron the western side of CapeCod Bay on December 21,1620.
Under the leadership of
William Bradford, they signedthe Mayflower Compact,which created their owngovernment.
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THE FIRST TH ANKSGIVING A T
PLYMOUTH CONT.
In October of 1621, thePilgrimscelebrated their
first harvestthanksgivingday.
The firstThanksgiving
meal consistedof deer, corn,shellfish,roasted meatand cranberries.
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DID YOU KNOW AMERICA GOT ITS
NAME FROM AN ITALIAN EXPLORER?
America got its namefrom Amerigo Vespucci,.
He wrote a book calledthe Four Voyages inwhich he claims he wasthe true discoverer of the New World. A German mapmakerplaced his name on anew map published in1507.
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FROM 1663 TO 1719, NEW CITIES WERE
FOUNDED.
From 1663 to 1719,
North Carolina, South
Carolina, New-Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Georgiaand other cities were
born.
In 1584 - Virginia.
New Amsterdam
became New Your in
1664.
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COEXISTENCE BETWEEN EUROPEANS
AND NATIVE AMERICANS
Deaths
Sexual harassment.
A merican women
were violated by Europeans
Mistreatment against
Natives.
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THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS OF
COLONIES ´DECLARA TION OF RIGHTSµ
Delegates from the
colonies met in
Philadelphia in the fall
of 1774. ´Man has right to
freedom and property,
man has never given the
faculty of being
relinquished of his goodsby a Sovereignµ
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN
MASSACHUSETTS 1763-1775
The A merican
Revolution was the politicalupheaval during the last half of the 18th century inwhich thirteencolonies in North
America joined together tobreak free from the BritishEmpire
( Lexington and Concordbattles).
In Boston, British loyalists
(Loyal to English Empire)ordered Patriots(Revolutionaries) to submit toEmpire or WAR.
In 1775 ² George Washington ² Major.
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Thomas Jefferson, was assisted by John Adams,
Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston, and
Roger Sherman when writing the final copy of the
Declaration of Independence.
THE DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE
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THE DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE
Within this text we find this
famous sentence:
´W e hold these Truths to be self-
evident, that all Men are createdequal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain
unalienable /nlynbl/
Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happinessµ
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The Continental Congress selected
Thomas Jefferson to write the first
draft of the Declaration of
Independence.
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AMERICANS DEFEATED ENGLISH ON
OCTOBER 19TH 1781 IN YORK TOWN.
France interfered in the
war helping United States
to liberty with Lafayette
and other French majors in
charge. France recoveredfrom the seven years war
where it was defeated by
England.
America helped by France
won! This independence
was worldwide recognized
in 1883.
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END OF WAR (UNTIL 1748).
Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Oregon, California andNevada, Utah, Arizona were ceded by Mexico atthat time.
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EMIGRANTS IN NORTH A MERICA BY 18TH
CENTURY .
English men.
Irish men.
German men.
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FEVER OF GOLD AND SLAVERY
In 1848 ² gold
discovery.
3.5 million black peopleare imported to America
and they were treated
as beasts, as slaves.
The new president of
this country Abraham
Lincoln claimed for
union.