The United States of America英美概况.doc

The United States of America Chapter 1 American Beginning Focal Points Meaning of the being an American according to Crevecoeur Two immigration movements to the Americas The religious Reformation The forces that brought about the modern development of Europe The heritage of the settlement of Virginian Puritanism and the influence of Puritanism on American culture William Penn and his heritage in American culture The Causes and major leader of the American revolution Meaning of the being an American according to Crevecoeur In his book , Letters from an American Farmer, the French theology Grevecoeur , posed the American was a new man with the strange mixed blood of Europeans or their descendants. This mew man left behind him all the ancient European traditions and received new ones in the new world . In North America, all individuals of all nations ,were melted into a new race of the American . This new man acted upon new principles, entertained new ideas and formed new opinions. II.Two immigration movements to the Americas The American continents were peopled as result of two long continuing immigration movements ,the first from Asia ,and the second from Europe and Africa. III. The forces that brought about the modern development of Europe 1.the development of capitalism( economic system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit ,rather than by the state), the growth of capitalism produced two new classes – the bourgeois class and the working class; 2.the Renaisance (the period of the revival of art and literature in the 14th ,15th and16th centuries based on classical form),which was marked by a changing outlook on life . 3.the influential force was the Religious Reformation in 1517 ,Martin Luther, started to reform the Catholic Church in England ,King Henry VIII broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and set up the Church of England, These reforms reflected the rise of nationalism in Europe. IV.The heritage of th