Europe Meets America

Europe meets America

Christopher Columbus was not the first to cross the Atlantic to reach America. When he  accidentally landed in 1492, the discovery made explorers sail to search for gold. This changed the land forever. Many explorers invaded the the land with greed and treated the natives cruelly. Some believed a legend about a city of gold in El,Dorado. Others believed there was a magical  fountain of youth. The Spanish eventually claimed most of the southwestern U.S.A . Over time, Native Americans all over were being pushed off their continent by Europeans.    

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Mark Twain was born in 1835 in Missouri. His dad died when he was 12. When he was 21, he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". He made thousands of writings and became a famous writer. He has an
awesome mustache.  His real name was Samuel Clemens. In 1862, he became a reporter. He had three dogs: I know, You know, and Don't know. He also had three cats: Flush, Dickens, and Willy. Once he wrote a story called, "Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog". He smoked alot. Once he said, "If you cant smoke in heaven, I shall not go". In 1870, he got married to Livy. Together, they had four children. In 1904, Livy Died. Mark Twain died April 21, 1910 at the age of 74. He was buried in Elmira, New York.

Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln 

Lincoln was born in Kentucky 1809. When Lincoln was just 7 he wanted to go to school. He wanted to learn how to read and write although his parents didn't know how. He was 9 years old when his mother died. When he was 21 he left his family and built a house in Illinois. He studied to be a lawyer. Lincoln married a women named Mary when he was 33. They had four boys: Robert, Edward, William, and Tad. Before the elections Lincoln got a letter from a girl saying he should grow a beard. He did grow a beard and got elected in 1861. lots of states wanted to leave the U.S. so Lincoln had to find a General and he found one named Grant. After 2 years of fighting Lincoln  had won! He had freed some of slaves. A week later he and his family went to a theater. After an hour a man named booth shot Lincoln in the back of  his head. He died the next morning.

Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus

       In the 1400s, Europeans wanted riches from the east Indies. Christopher Columbus believed the earth was round so he could reach the east by sailing west. He repetitively coaxed the king and queen to give him three ships to sail in the sea of darkness. The people thought the sea was too wide to cross or he would be eerily eaten by sea monsters. On October 12, 1952, the sailors spotted land. When they were ashore, men very different from Europeans emerged from the bushes. Columbus called them Indians and thought he was in the Indies. He had reached a place Europeans knew nothing about-the Americas.   

 

Moses

Moses

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Lily

One day, a baby boy was born. Two weeks later, armies come to kill all the boys. The mother puts the baby in a basket and she runs to the river with the basket. His mother put him in the river. Then the princess found him and kept him and called him

Moses. The princess asked Moses's mom to come help raise him but for she did not know that was his mom. After Moses grew up, he saw a Hebrew beating a slave and then he killed him and ran away and found a bush on fire but it wasn't burning and he went to see it then God spoke to him I am the great I am and you shall tell Pharaoh to let my people go and Moses went. Pharaoh  said no many times and the punishment got worst and worst finally he said the people could go and they went. there was a river Moses parted the river. Pharaoh's men were behind them but they got away just in time and Pharaoh got wiped out.  

The End