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THEAMERICANPAGEANT2 PARTONEFOUNDING THENEWNATION c. 33,000 European explorers who followed ChristopherColumbus to North America inthe sixteenth century had nonotion of founding a new did the first Europeansettlers who peopled the thirteenEnglish colonies on the easternshores of the continent in the sev-enteenth and eighteenth cen-turies. These original colonistsmay have fled poverty or religiouspersecution in the Old World, butthey continued to view them-selves as Europeans, and as sub-jects of the English king. Theyregarded America as but thewestern rim of a transatlanticEuropean life in the New Worldmade the colonists different from their Europeancousins, and eventually, during the AMERICAN Revo-lution, the Americans came to embrace a vision oftheir country as an independentnation.
answering mainly to their own colonial assemblies. By the 1770s issues of taxation, self-rule, and trade restrictions brought the crisis of imperial authority to a head. Although as late as 1775 most people in the colonies clung to the hope of some kind of accommodation short of outright independence, royal intransigence soon thrust the ...
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