TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Foreign Languages

Division of Linguistics, Culture and Literature

UNIT 4

THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED

STATES
001175 - American Culture

Designed by Vu Cong Danh

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OVERVIEW OF U.S. HISTORY

1492 to 1600’s
• Discovery Age
• Establishment of colonies
in the New World

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OVERVIEW OF U.S. HISTORY

1775 to 1776:
• Development of 13 British
colonies
• British restriction
• Declaration of Independence
• Revolutionary War

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OVERVIEW OF U.S. HISTORY

1783 to 1789
• Victory over British army
• Constitution
• Establishment of Federal
Government

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OVERVIEW OF U.S. HISTORY

1840’s to 1853
• Territory expansion
• Westward movement

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OVERVIEW OF U.S. HISTORY

1861 to 1865
• Civil War
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Reconstruction Age

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OVERVIEW OF U.S. HISTORY

1917 to 1920:
• Power growth
• World War I
• Feminism

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OVERVIEW OF U.S. HISTORY

1929 to 1933
• Great Depression
• The New Deal

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OVERVIEW OF U.S. HISTORY

1941 to 1945:
• Pearl Harbor assault
• World War II
• Hiroshima & Nagasaki
bombing
• Nuclear Age

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OVERVIEW OF U.S. HISTORY

1950’s:
• Cold War
• Korean War
• Civil Rights Movement

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OVERVIEW OF U.S. HISTORY

1960’s to 1980’s:
• Space Age
• Vietnam War
• Women’s Liberation
Movement
• Information Technology

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EXPLORATION AGE

• Christopher Columbus sailed west for the Far East

• He found North America by accident
• Other European explorers sailed to New World

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COLONIZATION AGE

• St. Augustine, Florida: first Spanish settlement

• Jamestown, Virginia: first British settlement (1607)

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COLONIZATION AGE

• 13 original colonies of England

 New England

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COLONIZATION AGE

Native Americans:
• Some friendly, helpful
• Some aggressive
• Many got killed and pushed to
the west

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 REVOLUTION: THE CAUSES

• Colonists needed no protection from Mother Country

• They wanted freedom and self-government

• England charged high taxes on colonists

• Colonists were angry about “taxation without representation”

 Tension escalated

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 REVOLUTION: THE WAR

• April 19, 1775: first battle in Massachusetts

• July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence

• With help of French army, colonial army won important battles

• Paris, France, 1783: peace treaty signed

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GROWTH AND WESTWARD MOVEMENT

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 GROWTH AND WESTWARD MOVEMENT
• Thousands of pioneers
traveled to the west to start
new lives
• Trains of wagons moved
together for protection

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HOMEWORK

Read the assigned materials :

[3] Pages: 4 – 9
[5] Pages: 25 – 27; 34 – 36; 70 – 72; 79 – 81

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 TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Foreign Languages

UNIT 4

THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

(continued)

Designed by Vu Cong Danh

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THE TIME OF THE CIVIL WAR
North South

• Economy: industry • Economy: agriculture

• No slaves • Heavily dependent on slaves
• Union • Secession  Confederation
• Support for Lincoln & • Opposition to Lincoln &
slavery abolition slavery abolition

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THE TIME OF THE CIVIL WAR

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 THE TIME OF THE CIVIL WAR

• The Union took the lead during the war

• January 1, 1863: Emancipation Proclamation

• July 1863, PA: Gettysburg Address

• April 3,1865, Richmond, VA: Confederation surrendered

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INDUSTRIALIZATION

Reconstruction after Civil War

• Amendment 13 put an end to slavery.

• Amendment 14 made all blacks citizens.

• Amendment 15 gave blacks the right to vote.

• The North helped the South reconstruct economy

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 INDUSTRIALIZATION

• Industrial Revolution: many invention applied to manufacturing

 Mass production quick and cheap

• Support from Federal Government

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THE U.S. BECOMES A WORLD POWER

• Senate rejected Treaty of Versailles and plan

for League of Nations

• American warships and trade ships were attacked by

German submarines
 The U.S. entered WW I on Allied side

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THE U.S. BECOMES A WORLD POWER

After WW II
• Cold war between U.S. and U.S.S.R.
• Marshall Plan in Western Europe

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MODERN TIMES

• After WW II: Korean War  Vietnam War

• Age of technology
• Nuclear power, military race
• Space exploration
• Civil rights movements
• Feminism and gender equality

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LOCAL HISTORY
Al Capon

king of the Chicago underworld

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LOCAL HISTORY
“Land Rush”, Oklahoma, 1889 – 1906

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 TRUE OR FALSE?
1. After Columbus discovered North America, European settlers lived in the
colonies under British rule.
A. True B. False
2. England won the Revolutionary War against the American colonies.
A. True B. False
3. The Declaration of Independence became the highest law of the land.
A. True B. False
4. George Washington was the first President of the United States.
A. True B. False
5. Millions of native American Indians came to the United States as workers
during the Industrial Revolution.
A. True B. False
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6. Americans from the northern and southern states fought against one another
during the First World War.
A. True B. False
7. President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves with the Mayflower Compact.
A. True B. False
8. Women didn’t have the right to vote in the United States until after the First
World War.
A. True B. False
9. The Great Depression began with the Second World War.
A. True B. False
10. The depression ended after Franklin Roosevelt became President and
established the New Deal government.
A. True B. False

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HOMEWORK

Read the assigned materials :

[3] Pages: 6; 16 – 17; 29 – 48
[5] Pages: 25 – 27; 34 – 36; 70 – 72; 79 – 81

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