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1、Chapter One Discovery of “New World”,.Name, territory, population, national bird, capital, national flag, national anthem, great seal .American Indians .Discovery of “New World” .Who first discovered the “New World”?,.Name, territory, population, national bird, capital, national flag, national anthe
2、m, great seal,The full name of the country is the United States of America.,New York City from 1789 to 1790 Philadelphia from 1790 to 1800 Washington, the District of Columbia,Washington D.C.,U.S.A. is the fourth largest country in the world with a large territory of 9,372,600 square kilometers (CIA
3、: 9,63 1,418) only next to Russia (17,075,400 square kilometers), Canada (9,970,000 square kilometers) and China (9,598,077 square kilometers ).,U.S.A. has the third largest population the world over and now the population has topped 300 million (2006-10-17 11:46), only next to China and India.,whit
4、e bald eagle,Robin (redbreast),Emu,Canada goose,kiwi,Golden eagle,Indian peacock,Golden Pheasant,Red-crowned Crane,The United States national flag is “stars and stripes” (nickname: old glory), and was made by a patriotic tailoress called Mrs. Betsy Ross in Philadelphia. The second continental congre
5、ss adopted it on June 14, 1777 and this day is observed as the flag day.,Resolved, That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation. June 14, 1777 the Flag Resolution,Betsy Ross
6、Flag,Betsy Ross presenting the first American flag to George Washington,Betsy Ross House is located several blocks from Independence Hall,Many people take the red and white to stand for the blood of those who gave their lives for freedom, and the presumed purity of the freedom ideal, respectively.,T
7、he star is a symbol of the heavens and the divine goal to which man has aspired from time immemorial; the stripe is symbolic of the rays of light emanating from the sun. a book about the flag published by the Congress in 1977,We take the stars from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating
8、 it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing Liberty.,-George Washington,Union Jack,E U,The United States national anthem is the “star-spangled banner” and was written by an American youth called Francisco Scott Key
9、 during the Second War of Independence from 1812 to 1814. On March 3,1931, the song was formally made the national anthem after President Herbert Hoover signed the Congress bill.,Defense of Fort McHenry,Oh, say can you see, by the dawns early lightWhat so proudly we hailed at the twilights last glea
10、ming?Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fightOer the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in airGave proof through the night that our flag was still thereO say, does that star-spangled banner yet waveOer the land of th
11、e free and the home of the brave?,a strong desire for peace, but will always be ready for war. “a preference for peace” E Pluribus Unum (Of Many, One”),A pyramid unfinished. In the zenith an eye in a triangle, surrounded by a glory, proper. -1782 resolution M DCC LXX VI Eye of Providence (all-seeing
12、 eye ),Annuit Cptis (nodded at (our) beginnings.) Novus Ordo Seclorum (new order of ages),.American Indians,1 origins of the American Indians 2 features and population of the American Indians,When? They came to the Americas about 25,000 years ago.,How? They came through the Bering Strait by ship? Th
13、ey came through a Land Bridge? They came through an Ice Bridge during the winter days about from October to April of the next year?,Why? intended to find new hunting grounds chased by enemies never to find any water in their homeland.,Where and who? They came from Siberia (Siberians) Mongolia (Mongo
14、loids) North China (Han Chinese).,Nazca Lines,They are yellow-skinned, and have broad faces, high cheekbones and black and thick hair and beard. They are (mostly) color blind and their fingers have no figures of gongs. When in war time they paint their faces red and so they are also called “red men”
15、.,When Christopher Columbus arrived, it was estimated that there were about 25 million American Indians in the whole western world. Now native Americans and Alaska Natives (Eskimos including Inuits and Aleuts) make up 2 percent of the American population, with more than 6 million people identifying
16、themselves as such.,warfare epidemic disease (smallpox, typhus, influenza, diphtheria, measles) displacement wipe out the buffalo,American buffalo (Bison),Bison being chased off a cliff,American bison galloping,Worlds Largest Buffalo in Jamestown, North Dakota at the Frontier Village,“The only good Indian is a dead one.” E
