The Importance Of Documents

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1. What type of document is this? (Ex. Newspaper, telegram, map, letter, memorandum, congressional record)
Document is a historical record.

2. For what audience was the document written?
The document was written for everyone, especially for all American people. Those who could understand better about the events and factors in history that push and pull British coming to America and establishing their lives at the New World.

3. What do you find interesting or important about this document?
The importance of document is factors of pushing and pulling English colonists who moved to American in the seventeenth century. The British went to America to find new opportunities for having a larger land and a better environment. The New World could

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