美国历史_1670起详解.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