a short history of america

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AN ERALY ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE USA. : 

AN ERALY ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE USA.

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The name America comes from the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512).

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Amerigo Vespucci sailed to the New World after Christopher Colombus.

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The people who first came to America were the ancestors of today’s Native Americans.

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The Native Americans came to America from Asia 20 000 years ago.

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The Vikings were in America about 500 years before Colombus.

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In 1960 the Norwegian archeologist Anne Stine Ingstad og her husband Helge Ingstad found an ancient Viking settlement on the island of Newfoundland.

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This proved that the Vikings came to North America 500 years before Colombus. The settlement was only in use for a short period of time.

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Settlers from Spain, France, Sweden, Holland and England began to arrive on the East Coast of Amerca at the beginning of the 17th century.

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In 1607 a ship full of English immigrants landed in what is Virginia today. The captain of the ship was called John Smith. You may have heard of him. He fell in love with the Indian princess Pochahontas in the Disney film.

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In May 1620, a ship with 102 passengers arrived at Plymouth in Massachusetts.

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They were religious refugees and became known as the Pilgrim Fathers.

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Local indians taught them how to plant corn.

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In October 1621, the Pilgrims celebrated their first harvest with feasting and games.

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Americans still celebrate the first harvest on Thanksgiving Day. This is now a national holyday.

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Britain and France fought many years in the 1600s and 1700s.

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They were fighting about who should control North America.

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The British army fought against the French and North American Indians between 1754 and 1763.

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The British won the war.

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By this time, there were 13 colonies altogether: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Matyland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

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In the eighteenth century, the colonists gradually started to feel like Americans

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They wanted to create an independent country.

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The British wanted to keep control of North America because they made a lot of money from the colonies.

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In 1770, there was a demonstration against British taxes. Five civilians were killed. After that, the colonists disliked the British even more.

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The colonists had to pay tax on tea from Britain. They drank a lot of tea.

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Some began to drink Dutch tea instead of British tea.

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So the British reduced the price of the tea they sent to the USA.

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The colonists felt it was still wrong to drink it. They were not British.

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On 16 December1773, a group of men boarded some ships in Boston loaded with British tea.

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They were disguised as Mohawk Indians. More than five thousand people watched them.

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The men threw more than 50 000 dollar worth of tea into the harbour water. That is about the same as 1,102 000 dollar today.

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On 4 July 1776, the colonists signed a document called the Declaration of Independence. This said they wanted the colonies to separate from Britain.

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In 1783, the eight year long Revolutionary War ended.

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In 1789, The American Constitution became a reality.

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It is the oldest constitution in the world.

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In 1804, two famous explorers, Lewis and Clark, set off to map the USA from the East to the West Coast.

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They and their team spent nearly two and a half years travelling and drawing maps.

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They also studied the geology, botany, wildlife and the American Indian tribes they met on their expedition.

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In 1848 a lucky person found gold in California and soon hundreds of thousands were headed for the Pacific Coast.

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Some businessmen then decided to build a railroad across the USA.

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This made the journey from east to west quicker and more comfortable.

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There were Europeans all over the USA now.

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However, the Native Americans had lost much of their land.

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The Northern States and the Southern States did not agree about slavery.

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The North wanted to abolish slavery, but the South said that they needed slaves in the cotton fields.

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This led to the bloody American Civil War.

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After four years the North won and put an end to slavery in the USA