英美文学赏析 American literature chapter 1.pptVIP

Colonial America  Background The first permanent English settlement in North America at James town, Virginia in 1617. In 1629 the puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Independent War (1776-1783): the formation of the Federative bourgeois democratic republic--the United States of America. After the first voyage of Columbus in 1492, the early 17C witnessed the beginning of a great tide of emigration from Europe to North America. They built a new civilization on a once savage continent. In Novemeber 9, 1620, the Mayflower ship lands at Cape Cod, Massachusetts with 101 colonists