英美概况-美国

It said that Indians, the initial settlers in American continent, were descendants of Mongolia. They came to the north America about 25,000 years ago. “About 4,500 years ago, Chinese might have researched the north America.” Henrietta Mertz(亨 丽艾特· 墨兹),an admirable American professor, who had done textual research after reading the Chinese book ,which was considered a ghost story .
amazingparades花车大游行花车大游行美国各大城市都要举行盛大的花车游行来庆祝感恩节
7.Triangular Trade
6.The Indentured servants
8.American People
1. The Discovery of the American Continent
The Discovery of the American Continent
According to the records, Europeans had been here in the 6th century, Irish and Arabs in the 8th century, and Normans in the 11th century. However, all of these adventures didn’t combine the continent with the world.
In September,1620,a group of 102 Puritans known as Pilgrim Fathers left Plymouth(普 利茅斯), England, and sailed for America in the ship named Mayflower.
Did You Know? 每年有多少只可怜的火 鸡成了感恩节的盘中餐？ Over 60 million. But one turkey will be lucky. 按照传统，美国总统每 年都要放生一只火鸡。 Amazing Parades 花车大游 行 美国各大城市都要举行盛大 的花车游行来庆祝感恩节。 There are amazing parades in the streets. They are huge balloons in the sky. Kids love them.
●In 1601,the Dutch entered north America and founded the New
Netherlands. The West India Company was established for predatory fur trade in 1618.
●In 1608,the French colonizers established Quebec(魁北克) as a
The pattern of the Thanksgiving celebration has never changed through the years. The big family dinner is planned months ahead. On the dinner table, people will find apples, oranges, chestnuts, walnuts and grapes. There will be plum pudding, mince pie, other varieties of food and cranberry juice and squash. The best and most attractive among them are roast turkey and pumpkin pie. They have been the most traditional and favorite food on Thanksgiving Day throughout the years. Everyone agrees the dinner must be built around roast turkey stuffed with a bread dressing to absorb the tasty juices as it roasts. But as cooking varies with families and with the regions where one lives, it is not easy to get a consensus on the precise kind of stuffing for the royal bird.
The White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASP)——to seek freedom of religion Businessmen——to make fortune
The Noble——gained land from the royal
Poor debtors in Europe——to make a living
Triangular Trade
————The notorious slave trade
A French-born agriculturist once American, this new men? He is either a
European, or the descendant of a European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you find in no other country… I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an English man, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have four wives of different nations. He is an American…”
（1454~1512）
●The Spanish founded the first colony ,Santo Domingo(圣多明各)， in
Haiti（海地), in 1496. And conquered Mexico, Peru, and Florida Peninsula(半岛), Georgia, Texas, and New Mexico of north America from 1519 to 1763.
（1451~1506）
★In 1499, America Vespucci(亚美利哥.韦斯普奇)
proved that the land discovered by Columbus was not India, but a new continent. As a result, it was named after him and became known as America, the New World.
They came to the continent to seek freedom of religion. And established the second English colony in New England.
During their first winter, over half of the settlers died of starvation or epidemics. Those who survived began sowing in the first spring. All summer long they waited for the harvests with great anxiety, knowing that their lives and the future existence of the colony depended on the coming harvest. Finally the fields produced a yield rich beyond expectations. And therefore it was decided that a day of thanksgiving to the Lord be fixed.
Pumpkin Race南瓜赛跑 It's a very lovely game. You need a spoon and a pumpkin. 你要用小勺推着南瓜跑。 Don't touch the pumpkin with your hands. 记住，勺子越小，游戏越 有意思。
The Early Immigrants
Prisoners of debt——to give cheap labor to the colony
The Indentured servants
To sign the indenture which provided that they labor for their masters for 5 to 7 years. After that they became free citizens and were given a piece of land their own.
Every year the fourth Thursday of November is Thanksgiving Day.
Thanksgiving Day is the most truly American of the national Holidays in the United States and is most closely connected with the earliest history of the country.
★In 1492,financed by the Spanish queen,
Christopher Columbus(克里斯托弗.哥伦布 ) sailed west in search of a sea route to India. However, he found America instead. And called the natives the Indians.
settlement, and expanded a New France.
●The first successful English colony in North America was planted in
Virginia in 1607. Landed on the banks of the James River in present-day Virginia. They named their new settlement Jamestown, in honor of the king.
Thanksgiving today is, in every sense, a national annual holiday on which Americans of all faiths and backgrounds join in to express their thanks for the year' s bounty and reverently ask for continued blessings.