A Few Lessons from American History (576,00 руб.)

M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University Law School Department of Foreign Languages A FEW LESSONS FROM AMERICAN HISTORY Reader for Students of English ÌÎÑÊÂÀ 2014 УДК 42 ББК 81.2 Англ. <...> A 20 COMPILED BY Svetlana Aleshko-Ozhevskaya EDITED BY Tatiana Tarasova A 20 A Few Lessons from American History: Reader for Students of English / Ed. by T. Tarasova. – Moscow: STATUT, 2014. – 80 p. [Уроки американской истории. – М.: Статут, 2014. – На английском языке] ISBN 978-5-8354-1011-8 (softback) The READER ‘A Few Lessons from American History’ highlights the most important periods in the US history with the emphasis on particular political and social events, legal reforms, court rulings, political leaders, prominent justices, federal and state laws, etc. <...> Key Words: Colonial America, Native Americans, New England, Navigation Acts, Colonial Wars, Boston Massacre, the First Continental Congress, the Second Continental Congress Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, Constitutional Convention, Federalists, Antifederalists, George Washington, Bill of Rights, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Marbury v. <...> About 10,000 years ago ancestors of the Native Americans filled nearly all of the habitable parts of North and South America. <...> In what is now the United States, the Mississippians built cities surrounded by farmland between present-day St. Louis, Missouri, (where their city of Cahokia was larger than medieval London) and Natchez, Mississippi. <...> The first attempt by Europeans to colonize the New World occurred around AD 1000, when the Vikings sailed from the British Isles to Greenland, established a colony, and then moved on to Labrador, the Baffin Islands, and finally Newfoundland. <...> There they established a colony named Vineland (meaning fertile region) and from that base sailed along the coast of North America, observing the flora, fauna, and native peoples. <...> Giovanni da Verrazzano, in 1524, and Jacques Cartier, in 1534, explored nearly the whole Atlantic coast of the present United States for France. <...> Samuel de Champlain built the foundations of what would become French Canada (New France). <...> Unlike Spain’s empire, ‘New France’ produced no caches of gold and silver. <...> New France was sparsely populated <...>