(part one)

 native inhabitants - Indians  first explorers - Leif Eriksson  Christopher Columbus  Puritans

 national holiday - fourth Thursday in November  religious problems in England  Puritans left England  Ship - Mayflower  help from Indians

 boxes of tea were thrown into water  Sons of Liberty  political protest against British government  situation escalated into the American revolution

 rebellion of thirteen American colonies of Great Britain  1776 – Declaration of Independent of the United States of America  intervention of France, Spain and Netherlands  British recognition of the independence of the USA

 Westward expansion  Louisiana purchased from Napoleon in 1803  relocation of the Indians  conquest of Spanish and Dutch domains

 slavery - Triangle trade  industrial North vs plantation South  Abraham Lincoln banned slavery  Segregation of black people remained for another 100 years