新版“英语国家概况”精讲笔记(14)

口迁徙在美国很普遍。

1) The ―discovery‖ of

getting more land and

In 1620,201 of Pilgrims ①the causes:With the sailed to the New World development of

economy,the people in

2)Black people and the the New World 发现新大establishing great new Civil Rights Movement ①blacks and slavery

陆

estates.). ②Drew other in a ship called

①The ―first Americans‖ people who could not Mayflower.They arrived the colonies wanted

more power to determine their own

the largest of the racial were the Indians 最早的find jobs in England. ③at Plymouth and built and ethnic minorities in 美国人是印第安人 the U.S., which 12.1 per ②In the late 15th cent of the population; century, Christopher the first blacks were brought to North America as slaves in 1619. 美国最大的少数人种是黑人，占人口的12。1%；1619年最早的人人作为奴隶被运至美国。

Columbus, an Italian

Most of all , it drew the the Plymouth

poor and the homeless colony.The Puritans（清business.But the policy from the farmlands and 教徒）,unlike the villages of Europe. ④

of the British

Pilgrims(清教徒前辈)who government was to were artisans and peasants,were

wealthy,well-educated

bring the development under control and collect more taxes from

navigator, supported by Many settlers came to the Spanish queen, he led his men to sail

the English colonies in search of religious

across the vast ocean in freedom because they gentlemen.The Puritans the colonies.原因：随着

经济的发展，殖民地人民要求更多的自决权。而英国政

1492 and reached some had been persecuted in did not allow religious small islands in the now England.

dissent.The colonists

②The slave system was west Indies.He thought 3)The first English formally ended by

were building a new way 府的政策是要把经济发展控

于股掌，并向殖民地征收更多的税

②the Boston Tea

he had reached Asia and colony in the Americas of life in the New

was founded at

World.There were a

Lincoln‘s Emancipation didn‘t know he had Proclamation in 1863 and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Consititution in 1865.the Civil Rights

disvovered a New Continent.③Ameriga Vespucci proved that the land was a new

Jamestown, Virginia, in number of features

1607. Between1607 and which would play a role Party(波士顿茶叶事件): 1733 the British

in forming the American In 1773, several dozen

Boston residents dressed as Indians boarded the ships of the British East India

established 13 colonies character.They

continent.Therefore, the along the east coast of were:representative

North America.They were Virginia, Maine,

from of

government,rule of

Movement in the 1960s land was named demanded

desegregation and equal right.1863年林肯

America after him.阿美

利歌。韦斯普奇证明了这是New Hampshire, 新大陆，因此，以他的名字Massachusetts,

law,respect of individual Company and threw the rights,religious

tea into the harbor. 1773年，几十名波士顿居民化装成印第安人，登上英

总统的《解放宣言》和1865命名。

年的《宪法第13修正案》2)Causes of the

Connecticut, New York, tolerance and a strong Rhode Island, Maryland, of individual

使奴隶制度正式瓦解。废除colonization of the New North Carolina, Sout h 种族隔离和人权平等导致了World 1960年的民权运动。 2.American History

Opportunity was a

Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and

enterprise.1620年，清教国东印度公司的船，将茶叶徒前辈中的201 3）3）The 倾入海中。 American War of

③the First continental Congress: In September 1774, the First Continental Congress

magic word.①The new Georlina. 美洲的第一块英Independence and its Would drew English

国殖民地于1607年在弗吉consequences.美国独立

战争极其影响

nobles (who dreamed of 尼亚的詹姆斯建立