1.	Američané před Kolumbem a první osadníci

2.	Puritánská Nová Anglie a koloniální život v Americe

3.	Kořeny revoluce a revoluční války

4.	Prvotní republika

5.	Zlatý západ, sever a jih

6.	Otroctví, občanská válka a obnova

7.	Rekonstrukce a léta růstu

8.	Průmyslový růst v USA v letech 1870 – 1920

9.	Indiáni a přistěhovalci

10.	Americké impérium

11.	USA během a po první světové válce

12.	Velká hospodářská krize, Rooseveltův Nový úděl

13.	USA a druhá světová válka

14.	USA v 50. letech

15.	Černoši v Americe

16.	USA v 60. a 70. letech

17.	USA v současnosti

"2. PURITAN NEW ENGLAND AND COLONIAL LIFE IN AMERICA
Virginian Beginnings
- By the 17th century are creating many colonies in N America bc of wealth, be safe from different reasons
- Many companies in Europe finance American colonies. They established the first English colony - 1607 James Town in Virginia, under the leadership of John Smith (explorer, associated with Indian girl Pocahontas who as the child saved him life)
- Due to Grant Charters written by king, town companies can own a colony in America. These companies worked till 1624, when the government ordered to finish their job
- London investors created Virginia Company and their aim was to inhabit this area. Soon they started starve and many died. So Virginia Company started to send from England many children, homeless, prisoners and women. Walter Raleigh in America started to grow tobacco – success.
- Melting pot = father Czech, mother Spanish… Russian Jew named like this one theatre play
- 19th century – they started calling themselves Americans (till that time it was name for Indians)
- Roanoke Island is now the state of North Carolina (Englanders lived there for a while and submitted the Indians. Then moved back to EN and when came back later on, there were no Indians at all.)
- Indentured servants = workers on the plantations from England, promised to work there for many years to get food and clothes.
- 1619 The House of Burgesses = Company allowed this body for settlers to advise about laws the colony needed
- August 1619 the Dutch ship sailed to Jamestown and brought 20 captured black Africans

Puritan New England
- Pilgrims = in general it means people who make a journey for religious reason / for Americans it means a small group of people who sailed across the Atlantic in the year 1620 to find religious freedom there (=Pilgrim Fathers)
- The Mayflower: 41 men, 65 days, English Plymouth – winter in Massachusetts (later camp Plymouth), friendly Amerindians tought them many useful things
- The Mayflower Compact = before landing at Plymouth, all 41 men on board wrote out an agreement where agreed to work together for good of all. They set up a government = civil body politic, which had just and equal laws and everyone had to obey them.
- Strangers = immigrants from England accompanying Mayflower
- Other English Puritans founded Boston (did not like the rule of Charles)
- John Winthrop = the leader of Massachusetts Puritans, they should be as a model for other nations
- Roger William = a Puritan minister in a settlement called Salem, was against passing strict laws directed by the church and by the government together - set up a new colony Rhode Island offering complete religious freedom and separation of church and state.
- William Penn = founder of Pennsylvania in 1681, due to the charted from the English king, Quaker who refused to war.
- Pennsylvania Dutch immigrants from the North of Europe (Ireland, Germany…)"

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Zpracovává anglické učebnice O'CALLAGHAN, Bryn: An Illustrated History of the USA. Harlow: Longman, 1990; CINCOTTA, Howard a spol. An Outline of American History. Washington: United States Information Agency, 1994.