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1、AMERICAName:Theofficialname:theUnitedStatesofAmericaOthernames:theU.S,theU.S.A.UncleSam,theStates,America,BrotherJonathan,Yank,Yankee,Usian,AmericanaNationalFlag:50stars=50states;13stripes=13coloniesTheStar-SpangledBannerortheStarsandstripesNationalAnthem:"TheStar-SpangledBanner"T
2、heofficialSeal:dominantfigure-theAmericaneagleSizeandlocation:9.3millionkm2,4thlargestcountry,Russia>Canada>China>U.S.AStates:Alaskaisthelargeststate.Texasisthelargestcontinentalstate.RhodeIslandisthesmallestcontinentalstate.NewEnglandincludesMaine,NewHampshire,Vermont,Massachuset
3、ts,RhodeIsland,andConnecticut,whichisknownasYankees.Mountains:theAppalachianMountains&theRockyMountains.TheyarethebackboneoftheNorthAmericanContinent.“TheContinentalDivide”大陆分水岭RiversandLakes:theMississippiRiverisalsoknownasOldManRiver&FatherofRivers.TheHudsonRivermeetstheAtlantic
4、OceanatNewYork.TheonlylakeintheU.SisMichigan.MajorCities:WashingtonD.C(Capital),NewYork(FinancialCentre),Chicago,Detroit,LosAngeles,SanFrancisco(ChinaTown)Climate:various,rangefromtropicalclimateinHawaiitorigidclimateinAlaska.Population,Ethnicity&Race:Anationofimmigrants,theMeltin
5、gPot,aSaladBowl,theNationonthewheelTheyadvocateculturalpluralismratherthanonesingleWASPculture.WASP:WhiteAnglo-SaxonProtestantThereareover100ethnicgroupsintheU.SandthecoreisWASP.NativeAmericans:theoriginallyinhabitantsofthecontinentAfricanAmericans:TheBlacksisthelargestethnicminor
6、itygroupintheU.S,whichisthedescendentsoftheslavesimportedfromAfrica.Hispanics:theirmothertongueisSpanish.Theyarealsothefastest-growingminoritygroup.Mostofthemliveinthesouth-westernstatessuchasTexas,California&NewMexico.AsianAmericans:ChineseAmericansconstitutesthelargestAsiansubgr
7、oup.The1stChinaAmericansarrivedinCaliforniainthelate1840sforthegoldrush.Theycontributedtotheconstructionofthetranscontinentalrailroad.AmericanHistory:Historicperiods:Pre-colonialAmerica->EnglishcolonialAmerica1493-1776->formingoftheU.S.A1776-1849->theCivilWar1861-1865->Rapidgrowth
8、ofEconomy1865-1940->WorldWar21940
