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TEA ACT Tea Act was in 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company. The Act granted the Company the right to directly ship its tea to North America and the right to the duty-free export of tea from Britain, so they imposed the tax imposed on the colonies. BOSTON TEA PARTY The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty, on December 16, 1773.  In defiance of the Tea Act, some of them disguised themselves as Native Americans and destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor.

The Anglo–Powhatan Wars were three wars fought between English settlers of the Virginia Colony, and Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in the early seventeenth century. The First War started in 1610, and ended in a peace settlement in 1614.Another war between the two powers lasted from 1622 to 1626. The third war lasted from 1644 until 1646, and ended when Opechancanough was captured and killed. That war resulted in a boundary being defined between the Indians and English lands that could only be crossed for official business with a special pass. This situation would last until 1677 and the Treaty of Middle Plantation, which established Indian reservations following Bacon's Rebellion.

 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE The Declaration of Independence was a document declaring the US to be independent of the British Crown. The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, by the congressional representatives of the Thirteen Colonies. While the majority of the members of the Second Continental Congress were native-born Americans, eight of the men voting for independence from Britain were born ther e. The Declaration of Independence states that the authority to govern belongs to the people, rather than to kings, that all people are created equal and have rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The Declaration of Independence is without a doubt one of the most important documents ever to be written in American history. It was signed by fifty-six different men, all representatives from different states. Why was the Declaration written? During the 1700s, the British Parliament passed several laws that limited the freedoms of many...

FIRST ATTEMPT: JOHN CABOT John Cabot was a Venetian navigator and explorer whose 1497 discovery of the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England was the first European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century. Cabot was not the first man to set foot in North America – millions of Native Americans had seen to that. Nor was he the first European on the continent. Worse, he was not even the first Englishman to stride out confidently into God's own country. Yet when Cabot's ship, the Matthew , landed in what today is eastern Canada in June 1497, he began Britain's long and eventful association with the New World that continues to this day. When Christopher Columbus, a fellow Genoese sailor, discovered America in 1492, he sparked off a rush of westward voyages by sailors, explorers and adventurers looking for the elusive western route to the Indies. Already mindful that. the Spanish had...

“PRE-HISTORY” OF NORTH AMERICA The people of North America: 1500 BC - 1500 AD Paleo-Indian where the firth people   who entered, and inhabited, America  during the final glacial episodes  of the late Pleistocene period. The original people of North America live in a wide range of environments. On the east side of the continent, there are woodlands, where they kill elk and deer.  On the grass plains of the Midwest, they hunt to extinction several American species, including the camel, mammoth and horse.  In the desert regions of the southwest, human subsistence depends on smaller animals and gathered seeds.  In the Arctic north, where there is very much more hunting than gathering, fish and seals are plentiful. Pre-columbian era Before the arrival of the Europeans, the indigenous peoples of North America were divided into many different polities , from small bands  of a few families to large empires....