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презентация powerpoint lecture#5: the history of the usa the points to be discussed: 1.america before colonial times 2.european discovery 3. the colonial heritage 4. the movement for independence 5.the civil war and reconstruction 6. a new place in the world. 7.the united states in world war ii what was the name of the pilgrims’ ship? the pilgrim fathers came from great britain and settled in america in 1620. their boat was the mayflower. what city was the first capital of the united states? new york city when was the declaration of independence signed? the congress approved the declaration of independence in 1776. the usa became independent from great britain who do historians believe created the first american flag? betsy ross but some historians believe continental congress member francis hopkinson may have been the true creator. he claimed credit for it and even sent a bill to congress for the design. …

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s below its current level, and a land bridge, known as beringia, emerged between asia and north america. at its peak, beringia is thought to have been some 1,500 kilometers wide. a moist and treeless tundra, it was covered with grasses and plant life, attracting the large animals that early humans hunted for their survival. they would have been following game, as their ancestors had for thousands of years, along the siberian coast and then across the land bridge. when columbus landed on the island of san salvador in 1492 he was welcomed by a brown-skinned people whose physical appearance confirmed him in his opinion that he had at last reached india, and whom, therefore, he called indios. the most marked physical characteristics of the indian race type are brown skin… …dark brown eyes... …prominent cheek bones… …straight black hair… …scantiness of beard.. the eye is not held so open …

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coasts of south america. he was sure, he wrote, that these coasts were part of a new continent. some years later vespucci's letters were read by a german scholar who was revising an old geography of the world. the letters convinced the scholar that vespucci was correct, and that the lands beyond the atlantic were a new continent. to honor vespucci the scholar named them america. exploration and colonization bby christopher columbus and the first pilgrims in 1492, on behalf of the king and queen of spain, christopher columbus was trying to find a way from europe to the far east. this is the map he used. surprisingly, he didn`t get to china. instead, he found some islands in the atlantic ocean near north america. columbus thought he was near the indies, so he called people indians. by accident, this sailor from spain discovered a new world. the arrival of …

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irst president and alexander hamilton his chief adviser, a strong central government was created. purchase of the louisiana territory from france in 1803 doubled the size of the united states. american revolution after the french and indian war, the colonists began to think that they were not getting their "rights as freeborn englishman". the colonists should not have to pay taxes unless they had votes in the british parliament. the federal period (1781–1815) in 1781, the colonies formed a confederation of states under the articles of confederation, but it lasted only six years. it gave almost all the power to the states and very little to the central government. the confederation had no president. it could not remove native americans or the british from the frontier, nor could it stop mob uprisings such as shays’ rebellion. after shays' rebellion, many people thought the articles of confederation were not working. fighting …

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igning of an armistice on nov. 11, 1918. the united states became the world's leading industrial power at the turn of the 20th century, due to an outburst of entrepreneurship and industrialization and the arrival of millions of immigrant workers and farmers. a national railroad network was completed and large-scale mines and factories were established. the united states in world war ii. world war ii began on sept. 1, 1939, when german troops overran poland. france, great britain, and other nations (called the allies) went to war against germany. at first, america stayed out of the war. the united states and the former soviet union emerged as rival superpowers in the aftermath of world war ii. during the cold war, the two countries confronted each other indirectly in the arms race, the space race , propaganda campaigns, and localized wars against communist expansion, notably the korean war and vietnam war. …

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презентация powerpoint lecture#5: the history of the usa the points to be discussed: 1.america before colonial times 2.european discovery 3. the colonial heritage 4. the movement for independence 5.the civil war and reconstruction 6. a new place in the world. 7.the united states in world war ii what was the name of the pilgrims’ ship? the pilgrim fathers came from great britain and settled in america in 1620. their boat was the mayflower. what city was the first capital of the united states? new york city when was the declaration of independence signed? the congress approved the declaration of independence in 1776. the usa became independent from great britain who do historians believe created the first american flag? betsy ross …

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