美国国情 美国历史文化 第2版PDF电子书下载

Unit 1 The Age of Exploration 1

Text A Early Exploration and Settlements 2

Text B Columbus's Discovery of America 4

Text C The Legacy of the Puritans 7

Text D The Thanksgiving Story 8

Unit 2 The Colonial America 13

Text A The Original 13 Colonies 14

Text B Colonial Life of the Early Settlers 20

Text C Slavery in Colonial America 22

Unit 3 The Road to Independence 26

Text A The War of Independence 27

Text B The American Revolution 33

Text C Causes of the American Revolution 34

Unit 4 The Young Republic 39

Text A The Creation of a National Government 40

Text B Beniamin Franklin 48

Text C The Essence of the Constitution 49

Unit 5 The Westward Movement 54

Text A The Frontier of the American West 55

Text B The Donner Party 61

Text C Louisiana Purchase 62

Unit 6 The Civil War 67

Text A Causes of the Civil War 68

Text B The Gettysburg Address 73

Text C Eye Witness Accounts of the Assassination 75

Unit 7 Reconstruction(1865—1877) 80

Text A Reconstruction after the Civil War 81

Text B Education after the Civil War 86

Text C A Shattered Fairy Tale 87

Unit 8 The Gilded Age(1877—1917) 91

Text A The Gilded Age 92

Text B Industrialization 99

Text C The Gilded Age Society 100

Unit 9 America in World War Ⅰ(1914—1918) 105

Text A The U.S.A.and World War Ⅰ 106

Text B Wilson's Declaration of Neutrality 114

Text C U.S.Entry into World War Ⅰ 115

Unit 10 The Roaring Twenties 119

Text A The Roaring Twenties 120

Text B Mass Entertainment in the 1920s 124

Text C The Lost Generation 126

Unit 11 The Great Depression 131

Text A The Great Depression in America 132

Text B Iowa in the 1920s and the 1930s 138

Text C Franklin D.Roosevelt 139

Unit 12 America in World War Ⅱ 142

Text A World War Ⅱ 143

Text B The Origins of World War Ⅱ 149

Text C American Domestic Situation During World War Ⅱ 151

Unit 13 Postwar American Society 156

Text A American Society in the 1950s 157

Text B The Postwar Economy:1945—1960 162

Text C Desegregation 164

Unit 14 America in Transition 169

Text A America in the 1960s 171

Text B America in the 1970s 172

Text C The Cuban Missile Crisis 176

Unit 15 Toward a New Century 182

Text A America Entering a New Century 183

Text B The Gulf War 188

Text C No Ordinary Day 189

Appendixes 195

Appendix 1 States,Their Entry into Union＆Their Settlement 195

Appendix 2 Presidents＆Vice Presidents of the U.S. 197

Appendix 3 U.S.History Timeline 200

重点参考书目和网站 215