美国边疆AmericanFrontier资料.ppt

AMERICANFRONTIER 1.What is frontier? 边界；国境，边疆 They lined the north-western frontier with soldiers. 他们沿西北边境线驻扎了士兵。 （学科或活动的）尖端，边缘；前沿； ...pushing back the frontiers of science. …推进科学前沿。 边界的；开拓的 The frontier town boomed when gold was discovered nearby. 当那个边疆城镇附近发现金矿时它迅速而蓬勃发展起来。 1.What is frontier? Familiar VS Unfamiliar diverse unknown exotic frontier frontier The term came from French in the 15th century, with the meaning borderland — the region of a country that fronts on another country (see also marches). marches: 边界地区（尤指英格兰与苏格兰或威尔士的） frontier frontier Wales Laws in Wales Acts 1535-1542 Scotland Act of Union(1707) 1.What is frontier? 2.What is American Frontier? Geography Cultural History Folklore American westward expansion the admission of the last mainland territories as states English colonial settlement early 17th century 1912 2.What is American Frontier? In North American development, frontier refers to a contrasting region at the edge of a European-American line of settlement, or settled area. 1. Before 1770s 2. 1770s to 1800s 3. 1800s to 1850s 4. 1850s to 1890s 2.1 Before 1770s The American frontier began in 1607. From the earliest days of European settlement to about 1680, the frontier was essentially any part of the interior of the continent – west of the Appalachian. 2.2 1770s to 1800s The Old West or the Trans-Appalachian West lying between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. First Frontier Second Frontier 2.3 1800s to 1850s Louisiana Purchase-The land lying between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. 2.4 1850s to 1890s Pacific Coast and Interior Frontier of Manifest Destiny and Conquest-Oregon, California, Texas, and New Mexico. Following the eleventh U.S. Census in 1890 the superintendent announced that there was no longer a frontier in the U.S. Sod house（草泥墙房屋） Log cabin（小木屋） 3. Life on the American Frontier 3. Life on the American Frontier 3. Life on the American Frontier Making soap from lye（碱液）, water, and