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• When Columbus arrived in America 1492 , there were already 10 million people living there.
• Columbus called them ' Indians ' becouse he thought he had landed in India.
• America in May 1607 they founded Jamestown.
• Since it was almost summer, it was to late to plant crops - and the rats ate most of what came out of the earth.
• In the winter of 1620, about one hundred English pilgrims on board the Mayflower set out for Virginia.
• Weak as they were after the terrible voyage half the passengers passed away.
• The british king wanted total control of the colonies.
• The british king sent soldiers to America and forced the settlers to feed and house them.
• On 4 July 1776 the colonies signed the Decloration of Independence.
• Samuel Adams, a politician and a clever journalist.
• On 4 July 1776 the colonies signed The declaration of independence .

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