英国在北美大西洋沿岸的现美国境内先后建立了13个殖民3.pptVIP

Independence and expansion Tensions between American colonials and the British during the revolutionary period of the 1760s and early 1770s led to the American Revolutionary War, Native Americans and European settlers In 1492, Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus, under contract to the Spanish crown, reached several Caribbean islands, making first contact with the indigenous people. The Indians Before Christopher Columbus discover the new world .There lived a group of people which Columbus mistook for the people of India . Those people ,who had crossed from Asia some 2000 years earlier left a beautiful virgin landscape largely untouched. 英国在北美大西洋沿岸的现美国境内先后建立了13个殖民地（ Massachusetts 、New Hampshire、 Rhode Island 、Connecticut、 New York 、 Pennsylvania 、 New Jersey 、 Delaware 、 Maryland 、 Virginia 、 North Carolina 、 South Carolina和Georgia ）。 American revolution 1.The sharpening contradiction between colonies and mother country. 2.The unity of the colonies . 3.The fire of Lexington and Declaration of Independence. 4.The war of American Independence. 5.The significance of the war. 6.The Confederation and the Constitution. With the growth of the colonies, however ,England exercised more profits out of her colonies . Such as Stamp Act(印花税） , Townshend Acts（汤森法案） ,Tea Act（茶叶税）. The Boston Massacre Boston Tea Party The unity of the colonies The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. Called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) by the British Parliament, the Congress was attended by 56 members appointed by the legislatures of twelve of the Thirteen Colonies, the exception being the Province of Georgia, which did not send delegates. The fire of Lexington George Washington George Washington (February 22, 1732 December 14,