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= U S A !!!!!!!!!!=

History:
If you haven't noticed, we live in the United States. This may be a shocker to many of you, but we've been learning about this country for most of our lives. So I know you may be bored to death by this presentation, but I will try to make it the least painful as possible!

A long time ago a man named Christopher Columbus belived that the world was round. In an effort to find better trading routs, he sailed off across the ocean. After many months he found land the he belived was India (but we now know that it was really America.) While he was there he met some of the natives (native Americans) and he called them Indians (because that's what he thought they were.) After a while everyone realized that he had actually discovered new land and they started sending people over to check it out. After some time, people started to build colonies in the new land, eventually there were 13 colonies in what is now the USA and they were all owned by Great Britain(GB). GB saw the colonies as nothing more than an economic resource and gave them a ton of stupid taxes. The colonists didn't like how GB was treating them, so they started to rebel against them and eventually decided to declare independence. After a big revolution, the colonists declared independence from GB and became known as the United States of America. Over time, the USA expanded and became the size and shape the country is today. (Plus, there were several more wars the country was involved in, like it's Civil War and the World Wars, but I could spend a year, like coach Irwin, telling you about the history of the great country. So I decided just to tell you how we became the USA. Your welcome.)

The USAs history is very important to the country, if they had not declared independence from Great Britain who knows where they'd be now. Today, they still can't make decisions against their declaration of independence and they are their own country and don't have any stupid taxes from Britain. They still cover all the land from one ocean to the other and I don't think anyone will be able to take it away from them (because they're awesome). They are a proud, independent, and free Nation. God bless America!!! Please excuse my corny ending.

The US flag!
The United States flag has 13 stripes, 7 red and 6 white; they represent the 13 original colonies. It also has fifty white stars, representing the present number of states in the US, that are placed in 9 horizontal row against a blue rectangle in the upper left corner of the flag.