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Why did the early settlers come to America? Opportunity It drew English merchants who dreamed of establishing great new estates out of the wildness. It drew carpenters, bakers, tailors and other skilled workmen who could not find job in England. It drew the poor and the homeless from farmlands and villages. It drew many English in search of religious freedom. The Founding of the 13 Colonies The first English colony in America was founded at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607; known as the mother state Between 1607 and 1733 the British established 13 colonies along the east coast of North America. Relations of American Indians with European settlers Declaration of Independence On July 4, 1776, the Congress formally declared the independence The Declaration states: “We hold these truths to self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, …” The Louisiana Purchase （1803） The False Prosperity in the 1920’s 1920’s = boom, prosperity, isolationism a period of material success and spiritual frustration or confusion and purposelessness The Great Depression In October 1929, the stock market crashed, marketing the beginning of the Great Depression. During this time, the United States experienced deflation, unemployment soared from 3% in 1929 to 25% in 1933, and manufacturing output collapsed by one-third. Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal 罗斯福新政 ① Hoover’s response to the depression ② President and Mrs. Roosevelt “First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself－nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to conve