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Early America. Human beings first migrated to the Americas from Russia during the Last Ice Age (c. 15,000 years ago). Thousands of years later (1492), with the voyage of Christopher Columbus, Europeans “discovered” the Americas. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Human beings first migrated to the Americas from Russia during the
Last Ice Age (c. 15,000 years ago).
Thousands of years later (1492), with the voyage of Christopher Columbus,
Europeans “discovered” the Americas.
The Dutch colonized the land in the northeast along the Hudson River. They named their colony
New Amsterdam (1621).
Today, New England consists of the following 6 states:
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New
Hampshire, and Maine.
The British government let the colonists govern themselves. The
colonists enjoyed their independence.
Later, however, the British decided to start taxing the colonists. The colonists didn’t like that, and so
the two sides went to war.