US history.ppt

America Discovery: 1492, Columbus reach some small islands in the now West Indies (西印度群岛), and didn’t know he had discovered a New Continent; Name: Amerigo proved that the land was not India, but a new continent. Therefore, the land was named America after him. The early exploration In 1565 the Spanish established the first permanent European settlement (移民地) in the continental U.S. at St. Augustine, Florida. John Cabot was the first English explorer to travel to the New World and claimed the first piece of land for England by the end of the 15th century. 1607 Jamestown in Virginia the first successful English Settlement Declaration of Independence We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that they are among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among them, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed. 我们认为下面这些真理是不言而喻的：人人生而平等，造物者赋予他们若干不可剥夺的权利，其中包括生命权、自由权和追求幸福的权利。为了保障这些权利，人类才在他们之间建立政府，而政府之正当权力，是经被治理者的同意而产生的。 The war of 1812 (the 2nd War of Independence) The expanding of United States Civil War Time: 1861--1865 1680 Lincoln: president, vocal about slavery 1681 South Carolina voted to leave the Union 11 southern states formed the Confederacy (beginning) 1861. 4. 12--the Civil War began 1862. 9. 22-- issued the Emancipation Proclamation （解放黑奴宣言）granted freedom to about 4 million slaves. 1865 The South surrendered Influence of the war p. 129 two achievements: realize the unification of the American nation end the slavery system reconstruction 1865- 13th amendment, ended slavery 1868- 14th , babies born in US are US citizens 1870- 15th, all free MEN have the Right to Vote. Civil Rights Movement 1950s- 1960s Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream” 1965 The Voting Rights Act (选举权法案) safeguarded blacks’ right to vote. 1965午8月6日，约翰逊总统签署了《选举权法案》并立即生效。这项法案规定禁止以征人头税作为投票选举的先决条件，禁止为投