The earliest immigrants to North America found Indians already living there. The Indians numbered about 500,000 at that time. Their society was a primitive society, but they lived peacefully and welcomed the white strangers to the land. However, these early immigrants from Europe didn’t want to share the land with the natives. They killed off many of the Indians, seized their land or pushed them off to lands farther away. Today the Indians, not more than half a million, live in poverty and misery on the land on which they were once masters.
The earliest immigrants were the Spanish, who settled in the southern part of what is now the US. The next large group were the English, after the English came the French, Dutch, Irish, Germans, and other nationality groups, mostly European.
Another early group to arrive were the Negroes. But they were brought in as slaves from Africa. They didn’t win freedom till generations later.
The earliest immigrants to North America found Indians already living there. The Indians numbered about 500,000 at that time. Their society was a primitive society, but they lived peacefully and welcomed the white strangers to the land. However, these early immigrants from Europe didn’t want to share the land with the natives. They killed off many of the Indians, seized their land or pushed them off to lands farther away. Today the Indians, not more than halfa million, live in poverty and misery on the land on which they were once masters.
The earliest immigrants were the Spanish, who settled in the southern part of what is now the US The next large group were the English, after the English came the French, Dutch, Irish, Germans, and other nationality groups, mostly European.
Another early group to arrive were the Negroes. But they were brought in as slaves from Africa. They didn’t win freedom till generations later.
| The earliest immigrants to North
America found Indians already living there. The Indians numbered about 500,000
at that time. Their society was a primitive society, but they lived peacefully
and welcomed the white strangers to the land. However, these early immigrants
from Europe didn’t want to share the land with the natives. They killed off many
of the Indians, seized their land or pushed them off to lands farther away.
Today the Indians, not more than half a million, live in poverty and misery on
the land on which they were once masters. The earliest immigrants were the Spanish, who settled in the southern part of what is now the U.S. The next large group were the English, after the English came the French, Dutch, Irish, Germans, and other nationality groups, mostly European. Another early group to arrive were the Negroes A. The Spanish. B. The English. C. The Negroes. D. The Indians. [单项选择]A. Latin America. B. North America. C. South America. D. Central America.
[填空题]Peoples occupied North America before the arrival of the (1)______
European in the 15th century have long been known as Indians because (2)______ of the belief prevalent at time of Columbus that the Americas were the (3)______ outer reaches of the Indies. Most scholars agree that Native Americans came into the Western Hemisphere from Asia by the Bering Strait in a (4)______ series of migrations. From Alaska they spread to the east and south. (5)______ Several separate waves of migration are said to count for the many native (6)______ linguistic families, while the common origin used to explain the physical (7)______ characteristics that Native Americans have in common--Mongoloid features, coarse, straight, black hair, dark eyes, sparse body hair, and a skin colour range from yellow-brown to reddish brown. Many scholars (8)______ 我来回答: 提交
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