Презентация на тему по английскому языку 'The United States of America'

empty land with mountains, forests, lakes, animals and fish,

became the North American Indians, and the Aztecs, and

North American Indians

of Canada and the Arctic.

years, America was unknown to the rest of the

The Vikings visited Canada from Scandinavia around AD 1000, but did not stay there.

Italian sailor called Christopher Columbus reached the Caribbean, while

voyages to America. During the first voyage he reached

Italian businessman called Amerigo Vespucci, sailed to South America

16th century the French, the Spanish and the British

a group of farmers founded the colony of Jamestown,

Pocachontas

discovered that it was easy to grow tobacco in

John Rolfe

very fashionable, and the Americans
found a big market for

were used for work on cotton fields , too.

another group of 101 men, women and children arrived

Mayflower

did not have slaves because they thought all men

But the Pilgrims were helped by friendly Indians,
who showed them how to grow corn. In the autumn of 1621, the Pilgrims had a big dinner to give thanks for the first harvest that they had

grown themselves. This day became known as Thanksgiving, and Americans still celebrate it every year.

were 13 colonies along the east coast of North

a group of men threw 342 boxes of tea

The Boston Tea Party

some Americans fought a group of British soldiers at

A few months later, after the Battle of Bunker Hill, near Boston, it was clear that Britain was at war with Americans colonies.

Virginia, George Washington, became the leader of the American

George Washington

did not say that they wanted to be fully

won the war five years later, in October 1781,

The names ‘United States of America’ and ‘Americans’ were first used at the time of the War of Independence.

the Stars and Stripes, also first appeared at that

The first American flag

colonies, or states grew by adding land to the

Thomas Jefferson

1819, the USA bought Florida from Spain. And by

31 million people was known as the Union, but

Civil war broke out.
At least 600,000 people died

who belonged to the Republican party, which was against

Abraham Lincoln

South Carolina said it wanted to be independent and

12, 1861, at Fort Sumter.

had some of the best generals – one of

great generals. One of them was William Sherman. He

William Sherman

was one more great general who helped the North

men, more factories and also A. Lincoln, one of

General Ulysses S. Grant represented the North at Appomattox in 1865, when the South, under Lee, accepted that they had lost the war. In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th president of the USA.

first, 1863, the Proclamation of Emancipation which gave freedom

about 4 million slaves in 15 southern states.
And they

many dissatisfied with this proclamation people.
Sadly, in April

Lincoln’s funeral

After Lincoln’s death the new president was not strong enough to bring the North and the South together. Anger and arguments, mostly about the rights of black people, continued.

, more and more people went to live in

from Texas up to the railway towns in Kansas

Native Americans (or Indians) in America in the 15tH

in 1890 with the battle of Wounded Knee, when

to America there were about 60 million buffalo there.

One very well-known hunter was Buffalo Bill Cody. They say that he shot 4,280 buffalo in one year!

Buffalo Bill

Civil war the Southerners were angry that they had

Some whites joined the Ku Klux Klan, groups of men who dressed in white and went out to beat and murder black people.

not vote until 1870 and even later they often

the North the black and white people lived separately.

the South they had to sit separately on buses

churchman called Dr Martin Luther King began to fight

Groups of black people started to break the law, but not in a violent way; they refused to use buses, so that the bus companies lost money. They also went into ‘whites only’ restaurants. And in 1964, a law was passed giving black people their civil rights.

year Dr Martin Luther King was given the Nobel

of America economically is the most powerful country of

of fifty states, including Alaska and Hawaii, and the