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View Series. Look inside Share Print. Key features Read more Why read? He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom - the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers.

But who has actually seen him? They can kill you with a look, or a word. They can send their friend the Devil after you in the shape of a dog or a cat.

They can make a clay picture of you, then break it. Today, of course, most people don't believe in witches. But in everybody was afraid of them. Young Jennet Device in Lancashire knew a lot about them because she lived with the Witches of Pendle. They were her family. Large numbers and the Aztecs, Mayas and Incas and of immigrants continued to arrive other peoples of Central and South from all over the world until the America.

Later came the Inuit middle of the twentieth century. Eskimos of Canada and the Arctic. The empty land was now full of But there are only a few of these early people, speaking different languages peoples in America today. But there were nearly several more. The 'United States of America' was not always united. The million people who live in its fifty states are not all the same. So how was the USA born? How did it grow? And what sort of country is it now?

Then, in , a brave Italian sailor called Christopher Columbus reached the Caribbean, while he was looking for a sea route from Europe to India. Slaves working in the tobacco fields Columbus did not stay either. It was only in the sixteenth century that the and went to England, where she died. French, the Spanish, and the The farmers discovered that it British all started to come and was easy to grow tobacco in live in North America.

Virginia, so they brought In the early seventeenth African people to work century, two very different in the fields as their slaves. Jamestown, in Virginia. They Pocahontas In , another group of fought with the Indians, and English men, women and many died because they were ill and children arrived in Plymouth, did not have enough to eat.

But Massachusetts. We know these Pocahontas, the daughter of an people, who had very strong ideas Indian chief, became a friend of about religion, as the 'Pilgrims', or Captain John Smith and helped him 'Pilgrim Fathers'. They did not want and the other English people. They celebrate it every year, on the fourth became not only farmers, but also Thursday of November.

It is one of businessmen who bought and sold the most important holidays in the animal skins. They thought that all year, and people often travel many men were equal and so they did not hundreds of kilometres to be with have slaves. The Pilgrims too were often ill and hungry, and nearly half of them died USA facts in the first year.

But they were helped 'America' was named after an by friendly Indians, who showed Italian businessman called Amerigo them how to grow corn. In the Vespucci, who sailed to South autumn of , the Pilgrims had a America between and Americans 'Indians' because he This day became known as thought that he had reached India.

But Britain until the summer of Thomas was a long way Jefferson wrote the famous away, and the 'Declaration of Independence', people of the where he said that the king, George colonies became III, had broken his agreement with angry at the high his people, because he had not let taxes that the them have their rights: rights to life, The Boston government made freedom and happiness. The day of Tea Party them pay. This was the later, in October , and 'Boston Tea Party'.

In they some Americans fought a Washington made George Washington group of British soldiers at their first president. Lexington and Concord, in The thirteen colonies, which Massachusetts. A few months later, became known as 'states', grew by after the Battle of Bunker Hill, near adding land to the south and west. Boston, it was clear that Britain was In , Jefferson, the third at war with its American colonies.

The United States Independence. And by , after winning Stripes, also first appeared at that Texas and the West from Mexico, it time. It has a stripe for each of the had grown again so that it reached all first thirteen states and a star is the way from the Atlantic to the added when a new state joins, so Pacific, over 5, kilometres.

And in war broke out - the most terrible war that the world had ever seen. At least , people died in the fighting or from illness. The war was fought to keep the United States united. It began because the Slaves working in the cotton fields southern states kept slaves to work in the cotton fields. Slaves The South had some of the best were not allowed in the North, and soldiers - one was the great Robert E. In , Abraham But the North had more men and Lincoln, who belonged to the more factories.

They also had Republican party, which was against Lincoln, one of the best presidents keeping slaves, was elected president. On December 24, South Carolina Two famous soldiers helped the said that it wanted to be independent North to win the war: General and the other southern states soon Sherman is remembered in a famous followed; they called themselves the song about how he took 60, of 'Confederate States of America'.

The his soldiers on a journey from fighting began on April 12 , at Atlanta, in Georgia, to the Atlantic Fort Sumter. South together. Anger and arguments, General Ulysses S. Grant was the mostly about the rights of black man who represented the North at people, continued.

Some years later, in Pennsylvania in Lincoln spoke , he became president. This became end of the war, Lincoln was shot at known as the Gettysburg Address the theatre by a man called John and contains the famous words, Wilkes Booth. After Lincoln's death, '. Most of us have seen the 'Wild West' in films and on television, and so we think that it was full of cowboys and fighting. But in fact there were very few cowboys - no more than 40, - and real cowboys did not shoot each other very often.

They were hard-working A cowboy men, and at least a quarter of them were black or Mexican. They took other crops instead of keeping cows. From there, the meat people together. In , the railway was sent to the East and sold.

From There were about two million to , more than half a Native Americans or 'Indians' in million farmers came to live in the America in the fifteenth century, West, where they grew corn and when the Europeans started to colonize the country.

They lived by Indians hunting buffalo hunting and farming, and when they got horses from the Europeans, they used them to hunt buffalo. Sadly, the Europeans also brought diseases which killed the Indians. They fought and killed the Indians too, because they wanted to take their land for farms or railways.

They shot millions of buffalo, so that it is said that by there were less than a thousand animals left in all of the USA - and less than , Native Americans.

The Indian wars ended in An early American railroad with the Battle of Wounded Knee, when many Sioux men, women and children were killed by different places; one man rode American soldiers. After this, with a bag of letters for about Indians had to live in special kilometres and then gave places called 'reservations'.

In this way, Even today, many of the letters only took about ten two million Native days to cross the country. He later became and a lot of them do a soldier and a hunter; not have jobs. Another century most American families had five million immigrants came from come from Britain, Germany and Italy, and millions more from Russia, Scandinavia, and they were farmers Poland and other countries of Eastern or businesspeople.

But soon that Europe, hoping to find jobs and began to change. America kept an 'open Factories were built and cities door' until and about 27 grew; poor people arrived from other million people arrived between countries, hoping to find work. They were often poor, had Between and the end of the different religions, and had not been century, about five million people to school for very long; there was a lot of prejudice against them.