C.Borrowing from American Indian words.D.Coined by the first British colonists in America. 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 C [听力原文] Q: Where did the name of the Mississippi River come from [一点即通] 短文中提到,美国的许多大河的名字来源于印第安语,故选C项。
Some recent historians have argued that life in the British colonies in America from approximately 1763 to 1789 was marked by internal conflicts among colonists. Inheritors of some of the viewpoints of early twentieth century Progressive historians such as Beard and Becker, these recent historians have...
Had Grenville been in power when news reached London that the colonists had refused to obey the Stamp Act, it is likely that Britain and America would quickly have come to blows. He rejected utterly the American argument against taxation without representation, and he was convinced that the colo...
3、Indians TribesGeneral social condition of colonies and their relationship with Motherland After surviving the hard times of the first years in the New World, the European colonists settled down to build a new society. Over the next 200 years, colonial society became distinctly American, not Eur...
Colonists reading the Stamp Act, illustration from Colonial Days: Being Stories... Colonial Days: Being Stories and Ballads for Young Patriots, by Richard Markham, 1765 Sons of Liberty The Sons of Liberty burning a copy of the Stamp Act in 1765. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (rep...
It served as a springboard (跳板) for the British colonists to expand their colonies and sphere of influence in Asia. In East Asia, the British government waged the Opium War (鸦片战争) against China and forced the Qing government to sign the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, whereby Hong Kong ...
This groundbreaking study fundamentally challenges the traditional national storyline by postulating that many of the initial colonists were actually of Sephardic Jewish and Muslim Moorish ancestry. Supporting references include historical writings, ship manifests, wills, land grants, DNA test results, ...
Belize. In 1798 the Spanish tried to liquidate the English settlements, but with the aid of the English fleet the colonists defeated them. In 1840 the English began to call Belize “British Honduras” and in 1862 it was officially declared to be an English colony. (At first it was ...
The thirteen original British colonies in North America, some formed as commercial ventures, others as religious havens, each had a written charter that set forth its form of government and the rights of the colonists.A. some formed as commercial ventures, others as religious havens, each had ...
Some recent historians have argued that life in the British colonies in America from approximately 1763 to 1789 was marked by internal conflicts among colonists. Inheritors of some of the viewpoints of early twentieth century Progressive hi..