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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-SpangledBannerortheStarsandstripesNationalAnt
2、hem:"TheStar-SpangledBanner"TheofficialSeal:dominantfigure-theAmericaneagleSizeandlocation:9.3millionkm2,4thlargestcountry,Russia>Canada>China>U.S.AStates:Alaskaisthelargeststate.Texasisthelargestcontinentalstate.RhodeIslandisthesmallestcontinentalstat
3、e.NewEnglandincludesMaine,NewHampshire,Vermont,Massachusetts,RhodeIsland,andConnecticut,whichisknownasYankees.Mountains:theAppalachianMountains&theRockyMountains.TheyarethebackboneoftheNorthAmericanContinent.“TheContinentalDivide”大陆分水岭RiversandLakes:th
4、eMississippiRiverisalsoknownasOldManRiver&FatherofRivers.TheHudsonRivermeetstheAtlanticOceanatNewYork.TheonlylakeintheU.SisMichigan.MajorCities:WashingtonD.C(Capital),NewYork(FinancialCentre),Chicago,Detroit,LosAngeles,SanFrancisco(ChinaTown)Climate:va
5、rious,rangefromtropicalclimateinHawaiitorigidclimateinAlaska.Population,Ethnicity&Race:Anationofimmigrants,theMeltingPot,aSaladBowl,theNationonthewheelTheyadvocateculturalpluralismratherthanonesingleWASPculture.WASP:WhiteAnglo-SaxonProtestantThereareov
6、er100ethnicgroupsintheU.SandthecoreisWASP.NativeAmericans:theoriginallyinhabitantsofthecontinentAfricanAmericans:TheBlacksisthelargestethnicminoritygroupintheU.S,whichisthedescendentsoftheslavesimportedfromAfrica.Hispanics:theirmothertongueisSpanish.Th
7、eyarealsothefastest-growingminoritygroup.Mostofthemliveinthesouth-westernstatessuchasTexas,California&NewMexico.AsianAmericans:ChineseAmericansconstitutesthelargestAsiansubgroup.The1stChinaAmericansarrivedinCaliforniainthelate1840sforthegoldrush.Theyco
8、ntributedtotheconstructionofthetranscontinentalrailroad.AmericanHistory:Historicperiods:Pre-colonialAmerica->EnglishcolonialAmerica1493-1776->formingoftheU.S.A1776-1849->theCivilWar1861-1865->RapidgrowthofEconomy1865-1940->WorldWar21940
