HIST 5033 - American Beginnings: From Discovery to the Revolution
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After the migration of man across the Bering Straits, the great Indian civilizations appeared followed by the first European colonies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Settlement spread, and an American society flowered represented by such figures as William Byrd, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson – until estrangement from England provoked a crisis that finally touched off the American Revolution.