history of the USA
.... It was a very difficult voyage but in three months the ships reached and landed on one of the Bahamas Islands. Until the end of his life Columbus thought that the islands and the mainland were the part of India. That's why they were called West Indies and the red-skinned natives — "Indians". In 1497 another Italian seaman Amerigo Vespucchi explored the coast of South America and proved that the land discovered by Columbus was not India but the new continent. The "New World" was decided to name after him — America, the land of Amerigo. But only at the beginning of the XVII-th century Englishmen established several colonies and called them new England. It happened in 1620 when some Łnglish families (about 100 people) left England on board the ship "Mayflower" and sailed to America, pfom the Atlantic coast colonists gradually penetrated into the depths of the continent. They drove back the native population, took away their lands by force and deception and destroyed them. The colonists became richer and stronger, but they were ruled by England and paid duty on different things. At the end of the XVII-th...