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= Colonial America = The Story of how North America transformed from a vast untamed countryside populated with numerous indigenous(original) people of different tribal groups to a land enthralled in deep competition for power and resources is a long and intricate story filled with many exciting twists. Unfortunately, **Colonial America** could be taught as its own course and the majority of //this// story will not be studied in depth in this course. However, in order to make some sense of why Europeans came to this continent, what became of the people already living here, and how that story relates to what we //will// focus on in this course, I have attempted to summarize some key factors in a three day lesson. Some of the story you will be familiar with and some parts will be new information. I hope you will come away with a more mature understanding of some childhood memories about Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims and also see the beginning of a pattern of the struggle for dominance in North America that continues up to the Revolutionary period.