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1.

A brief History of the United States
of America

2.

Christopher Columbus discovered America in
1492.

3.

The Pilgrim Fathers came from Great Britain
and settled in America in 1620. Their boat was
the Mayflower.

4.

Slavery became legal in 1650.

5.

The Congress approved the Declaration of
Independence in 1776. The United States of
America became independent from Great
Britain.

6.

George Washington became the first President
of the United States in 1789.

7.

In 1861, the North of the USA fought against the
South over the issue of slavery. At the end of the
Civil War, in 1865, the North defeated the South.
States against slavery
States in favour of slavery

8.

Slavery became illegal in 1865.

9.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy died in 1963, 52 years
ago.

10.

Neil Armstrong was the first man who walked on
the moon in 1969.

11.

From 1965 to 1973, many soldiers fought in the
Vietnam War.

12.

Martin Luther King, who fought against racial
inequalities, died in 1968 in Memphis. He was
assassinated.

13.

In 2001, planes crashed into the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon, on the 11th
September.

14.

Ten years ago, in 2005, Hurricane Katrina
destroyed New Orleans.

15.

In 2008, Barack Obama won the presidential
election, and he was re-elected in 2012.