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 <...>
A_Few_Lessons_from_American_History_Reader_for_Students_of_English._Уроки_американской_истории._На_английском_языке.pdf
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. The READER helps to
acquire background knowledge and cross-cultural competence for better
understanding of spoken and written English for academic purposes,
further studies in law, history, social and political sciences.
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.
Madison, Abolitionism, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Civil War, Federal Reserve
Act, Constitutional Amendments.
УДК 42
ББК 81.2 Англ.
ISBN 978-5-8354-1011-8
© S. Aleshko-Ozhevskaya, 2014
© Издательство «Статут» (Statut Publishing House), 2014
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CONTENTS
Foreword ................................................................................... 4
Lesson 1. Exploration of America (1492–1600) .......................... 5
Lesson 2. Colonial America (1630–1763) ..................................11
Lesson 3. Revolutionary America (1763–1783) ..........................19
Lesson 4. The Birth of a New Nation (1776–1789) ................... 25
Lesson 5. The Young Republic (1789–1816) ............................. 30
Lesson 6. Sectional Conflict (1816–1860) ................................. 36
Lesson 7. Civil War and Reconstruction (1860–1877)............... 43
Lesson 8. Spanish-American War and the Progressive Era
(1898–1930) ............................................................. 49
Lesson 9. The Great Depression, the New Deal and the War
(1929–1945)............................................................. 55
Lesson 10. Post-war America and the Civil Rights Movement
(1946–1964) ............................................................61
Lesson 11. The Great Society, Nixon and Watergate
(1964–1974) ........................................................... 66
Glossary ...................................................................................71
Bibliography ............................................................................. 79
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