文档介绍：American Origin And Immigration
American Origin
Discovery
English Settlement
Colonial Era
Revolution
1. Discovery
Around the year 1000, 500 years earlier than Columbus, a party of Icelandic Vikings under Leif Ericson sailed to the North America and landed at a place they called Vinland.
*Leif Ericson:雷夫·埃里克森挪威探险家,他被认为是第一位登上北美的人,早于哥伦布发现新大陆五百年。根据冰岛传说,他在Vinland(温兰德)建立了挪威人的定居点。
Christopher Columbus sailed west. Instead he landed on one of the Bahama Islands in the Caribbean Sea.
1. Discovery
Bahama [bə‘hɑ:mə] Island: 巴哈马群岛
Caribbean [kæri’bi(:)ən] Sea: 加勒比海
1. Discovery
The Spanish established some of the earliest settlements in North America.
1. Discovery
The Europeans were initially drawn to the New World in search of wealth. Each European sovereign claimed as much territory as possible in the New World by establishing settlements of Europeans. This requirement-fueled the drive for the establishment of colonies.
Sovereign [‘sɔvrin] n. 元首,主权
2. English Settlements
The first essful English colony in the Americas was founded at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607;
Jamestown:詹姆斯敦(佛吉尼亚州)
In New England, the northeastern region of what is now the United States; several settlements were established by English Puritans.
One group of Puritans, called the "Pilgrims," took the ship Mayflower and settled at Plymouth in 1620.
Plymouth ['pliməθ] n. 普利茅斯
2. English Settlements
In 1621, the puritans gathered in a large crop and the settlers fixed a date to celebrate their harvest in order to express their thanks to God. This is the beginning of the holiday called Thanksgiving.
2. English Settlements
2. English Settlements
The Puritans hoped to build “a city upon a hill”--an munity. New England also established another American tradition-- an often intolerant moralism. The Puritans believed that governments should enforce God's morality. They strictly punished drunks, adulterers, violators of the Sabbath and heretics. In the Puritan settlements the right to vot