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一篇有关美国历史的英语演讲,五分钟左右.

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一篇有关美国历史的英语演讲,五分钟左右.
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The Colonial Period of America
After a period of exploration by people from various European countries, Dutch, Spanish, English, French, Swedish, and Portuguese settlements were established.In the 15th century, Christopher Columbus sailed across the vast ocean in order to reach India. In 1492 he reached some small islands in the now west Indies, not knowing that he had found a new continent. (West Indies: a group of islands of E. North America, stretching from Florida to western Venezuela, separating the Atlantic Ocean from the Caribbean Sea.) Another navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, proved that the land Columbus reached was not India, but a new continent, which was later named America after him.
The Spanish sent some settlers, creating the first permanent European settlement in the continental United States at St. Augustine, Florida in 1565.[1] Later Spanish settlements included Santa Fe, San Antonio, Tucson, San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Most Spanish settlements were along the California coast or the Santa Fe River in New Mexico.
New France was the area colonized by France in North America during a period extending from the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River, by Jacques Cartier in 1534, to the cession of New France to Spain and Britain in 1763. At its peak in 1712 (before the Treaty of Utrecht), the territory of New France extended from Newfoundland to the Rocky Mountains and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.
The first English colony in the Americas was founded at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. Though many Americans hold that the ship Mayflower in 1620 brought the first group of immigrants from the Old World and believe that the colony the Puritans built in Plymouth later was the beginning of the American history. Between 1607 and 1733 the British established 13 colonies along the east coast of North America.
The early settlers came to America either for opportunities to realize their dreams and better lives or for the freedom from religious and governmental persecution. The Pilgrims were persons who suffered religious persecution in England and went to Holland and later moved to America in 1620. The Puritans were members of a Protestant group, wealthy, well-educated gentlemen, in England who wanted purify the Church of England. Dissatisfied with the political corruption in England and threatened with religious persecution, the Puritan leaders saw the New World as the refuge provided by God for those He meant to save. From 1630 to 1643, some 200 ships transported over 20,000 Englishmen to the Massachusetts Bay colony.
Features of the colonies later influenced the development of the country: representative form of government, rule of law, respect of individual rights, religious tolerance and a strong spirit of individual enterprising.