1美国文化之新大陆的发现 Microsoft Powerpoint演示文稿

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: 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 ).
American bison galloping
"World's Largest Buffalo" in Jamestown, North Dakota at the Frontier Village
“The only good Indian ifense of Fort McHenry
• Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
• "The 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." •
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June 14, 1777 the Flag Resolution
Betsy Ross Flag
Betsy Ross presenting the first American flag to George Washington
Betsy Ross House is located several blocks from Independence Hall
• "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."
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.

Mongolia (Mongoloids)
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”.
Eye of Providence (all-seeing eye )
Annuit Cœptis ("nodded at (our) beginnings.")
Novus Ordo Seclorum (new order of ages)
Ⅱ.American Indians
1 origins of the American Indians 2 features and population of the American Indians
warfare
epidemic disease (smallpox, typhus, influenza, diphtheria, measles)
displacement
wipe out the buffalo
American buffalo (Bison)
Bison being chased off a cliff
Ⅰ.Name, territory, population, national bird, capital, national flag, national anthem, great seal
• The full name of the country is the United States of America.
white 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 congress adopted it on June 14, 1777 and this day is observed as the flag day.
reservation
assimilation
When? They came to the Americas about 25,000 years ago.

How? They came through the Bering Strait by ship?


They came through a Land Bridge? They came through an Ice Bridge during the winter days about from October to April of the next year?
Chapter One Discovery of “New World” Ⅰ.Name, territory, population, national bird, capital, national flag, national anthem, great seal Ⅱ.American Indians Ⅲ.Discovery of “New World” Ⅳ.Who first discovered the “New World”?
• 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.
a book about the flag published by the Congress in 1977
• "We take the stars from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing Liberty."

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)
"a strong desire for peace, but will always be ready for war."
“a preference for peace”