英美概况美国部分修正版

- -- - word.zl-PART TWO The United States of American 1.Population, race and ethnic groups 人口和种族1)introduction 概要① the third most populous country in the world,with 255.5 million people. ② a nation of immigrants.Immigration accounts for a major source of population growth.There are many racial and ethnic groups. Between 80% and 90% of immigration ot the United States now is from Asian and Hispanic counties.The first immigrants in American history came from England and Netherlands. Population movements are mon in America. 移民是人口增长的一个主要原因。到目前80%-90%的移民来自亚洲和西班牙语国家。美国历史上最早的移民来自于英格兰和荷兰。人口迁徙在美国很普遍。2)Black people and the Civil Rights Movement ①blacks and slavery the largest of the racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S., which 12.1 per cent of the population; the first blacks were brought to North America as slaves in 1619. 美国最大的少数人种是黑人，占人口的12。1%；1619年最早的黑人作为奴隶被运至美国。②The slave system was formally ended by Lincoln ‘s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Consititution in 1865.the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s demanded desegregation and equal right. 1863 年林肯总统的 ?解放宣言 ?和 1865 年的 ?宪法第 13 修正案 ?使奴隶制度正式瓦解。废除种族隔离和人权平等导致了1960 年的运动。2.American History 1) The ―discovery‖ of the New World 发现新大陆①The ―first Americans‖ were the Indians 最早的美国人是印第安人②In the late 15th century, Christopher Columbus, an Italian navigator, supported by the Spanish queen, he led his men to sail across the vast ocean in 1492 and reached some small islands in the now west Indies.He thought he had reached Asia and didn‘t know he had disvovered a New Continent. 15 世纪后期...