AmericanHistory(2009).ppt

American History
Zhou Yuhua
Ningbo University of Technology
Objective
How has the US developed from a young and weak nation into the most developed and most powerful country in the world?
Contents
Colonial settlement
American Revolution
Civil War
Gilded Age
Great Depression
Cold War
Introduction
It has been said that America is abundance in its geography but short on history.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Colonial Settlement
1492 Columbus discovered the New World
1607 The first British colony, Virginia was founded in North America
1620 A group of Puritans (Pilgrim Fathers) landed America by Mayflower
1773 English settlers had
occupied 13 colonies
Palos, Spain
Columbus's Ships
The Nina, the Pinta and Santa Maria
Columbus Day
Date: Second Monday in October
History: Few celebrations marked Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the New World of the Americas in 1492 until hundreds of years later. In 1792, a monument was dedicated to him in New York. Soon after that, the city of Washington was officially named the District of Columbus and became the capital of the United States.