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Washington reached the balcony of the Federal Building, ill with fatigue( Fatigue means: extreme tiredness resulting from mental or physical exertion or illness).On April 30, 1789, on the balcony of the Federal Building on Broad Street, George Washington was to become the First President of the United States.

The French and Indian War started on May 28, 1754, and ended on February 10, 1763. The location of this war was in North America. In the war, France and Great Britain went against each other. They were fighting over the Ohio River Valley. After a long war, Great Britain won the War.

In Colonial America, there was a Genius named Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin was a Founding Father of the United States. Benjamin Franklin became the Founding Father of the United States in 1775.

The Indians would live by building houses. They made houses by using cypress, or red or white cedar. Only when they can get neither of these wood they would use pine bark. They set the wood about two feet apart in a circle in the ground. The tops are bent together and tied either with elm bark or with the moss that grew on tress to length of two yards and would not rot.

Ninety-five years after the death of de Soto, the first real explorer of the Mississippi, Jacques Marquette, was born in 1637 in an old chateau in Laon, a city north of Paris. At this time, Louis Joliet, a young mapmaker educated in the Jesuit school at Quebec, also heard of the Mississippi and wondered if the fabled river might not provide the passage to China that both Columbus and Hendrik Hudson had been seeking.