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If you see a phrase below in (parenthesis) this is the ''name of an article'' which goes ''before'' the appropriate phrase in a [[WP:piped link]]. Over time you will learn how to find the name of relevant articles to create such piped links. See the relevant paragraphs in the [[History of the United States]] article to check what you missed.
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The history of the United States traditionally starts with the [[United States Declaration of Independence]] Declaration of Independence in the year 1776, although its territory was inhabited by [[Native Americans in the United States]] Native Americans since prehistoric times and then by [[European colonization of the Americas]] European colonists who followed the voyages of Christopher Columbus starting in 1492. The largest settlements were by the English on the East Coast, starting in 1607. By the 1770s the Thirteen Colonies contained two and half million people, were prosperous, and had developed their own political and legal systems. After the American Revolution the
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The [[women's suffrage in the United States]] women's suffrage movement began with the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, and the Declaration of Sentiments demanding equal rights for women. Many of the activists became politically aware during the abolitionist movement. The women's rights campaign during "first-wave feminism" was led by Mott, Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, among many others. The movement reorganized after the Civil War, gaining experienced campaigners, many of whom had worked for prohibition in the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
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