美国政治经济与外交复习资料

美国政治经济与外交复习资料

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Chapter 1 The Establishment of American Politics

1.Until the 1500s, most of what is now the United States was thinly populated forests and prairies.

2.The ancestors of the Hawaiians were Polynesians who sailed to what is now Hawaii from other Pacific islands about 2,000 years ago.

3.Some Spaniards settled in what is now the United States during the 1500's. European settlement increased sharply during the 1600's.

4.The history of the United States political system fashioned out of the wilderness within the past400 years is packed with incident because America has had in that period to pass through those stages of political development that elsewhere have taken 1,000 or 2,000 years

5.The first known inhabitants of modern-day United States territory are believed to have arrived over a period of several thousand years beginning sometime prior to 15,000 years ago

6.Columbus was the first European to set foot on what would one day become U.S. territory when he came to Bahamas in October 12th of 1492.

7.In the 15th century, Europeans brought horses, cattle, and hogs to the Americas and, in turn, took back to Europe corn, potatoes, tobacco, beans, and squash.

8.some evidence suggests that John Cabot might have reached what is presently New England in 1498.

9.The strip of land along the eastern seacoast was settled primarily by English colonists in the 17th century

10 In 1607, about 100 British colonists reached the coast near Chesapeake Bay where they founded Jamestown

11.During the next 150 years, a steady stream of colonists came to America and settled near the coast. Most of the colonists were British, but they also included people from France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, and other countries.

12.The Plymouth Colony was established in 1620.

13.The area of New England was initially settled primarily by Puritans who created the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.

14.The first attempted English settlement south of Virginia was the Province of Carolina, with Georgia Colony the last of the thirteen colonies established in 1733.

15.Several colonies were used as places of punishment from the 1620s until the American Revolution.

16.The House of Burgesses first met at Jamestown, then the capital of Virginia, on July 30, 1619.

17.In 1621, the House gained the authority to make all legislation, but the governor and his council had the right of veto.

18.When it was temporarily broken up in 1774, its members met in the first revolutionary convention of Virginia.

19.The Thirteen Colonies were British colonies in North America founded between 1607 (Virginia), and 1733 (Georgia).

20.United States of America, which became a nation in 1781 with the ratification of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.