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A group of pilgrims sailed from England to America "the new world "

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The pilgrims saw land in the distance , they were very excited because their journey was near the end

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Pilgrims meet a native Americans for the first time and he introduced them to his tribe . The native Americans taught the pilgrims how to grow corn beans and pumpkins.

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The British had 13 colonies on the east coast of north America and about two and a half million colonist lived there.

But France and Spain also owned big areas in north America

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The British army and the colonies fought the french over land in north America . The British won the war and gotsome of the french land . But then the British government asked for taxes from the colonist to pay for the war

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The colonies declared independence from great Britain

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The called their new nation the United States of America (USA)

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The french Emperor Napoleon offered to sell the land to the United States for $15 million . The president, Thomas Jefferson accepted the offer and signed the Louisiana purchase agreement

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The US government created the first Indian territoryin the area now called Oklahoma . The forced more than 15,000 Cherokee people to leave their homes in Georgia and walk 1,600 km to their new territory

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The south has got their confederacy . It's got 11 States now . Richmond , in Virginia is the capital . They think they're a different nation from the union in the north

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General Robert E. Lee , the confederate army leader, surrendered to General Ulysses Grant , the union army leader . I can't believe it ! It's the end of the war ! But more than 600,000 americans are dead