Grade 4 US History

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• The Thirteen Colonies were the first English colonies on the eastern coast of North America that declared independence from Britain.
• Jamestown, founded in 1607, was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
• The American Revolution was the war in which the Thirteen Colonies fought for independence from British rule.
• The Boston Tea Party was a protest where colonists threw British tea into the water to oppose new taxes.
• The Declaration of Independence, written in 1776, stated that all people have natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
• The United States Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787, to establish the framework of the federal government.
• The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees freedoms such as religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
• The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 was when the U.S. bought a large area of land from France to expand westward.
• Lewis and Clark led an expedition from 1803 to 1806 to explore the newly purchased western lands of the United States.
• The Civil War (1861–1865) was fought between the Northern states (Union) and Southern states (Confederacy) over slavery and other issues.
• Reconstruction was the period after the Civil War when the U.S. government tried to rebuild the South and protect the rights of freed African Americans.
• The War of 1812 was a conflict between the United States and Britain that included the burning of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.