1. (part one)

2.  native inhabitants - Indians  first explorers - Leif Eriksson - 1000  Christopher Columbus - 1492  Puritans - 1620

3.  national holiday - fourth Thursday in November  religious problems in England  1620 - Puritans left England  Ship - Mayflower  help from Indians

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

5.  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

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

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