Improve your English ⭐ | Very Interesting Story - Level 3 - History of the USA | VOA #10

Chapter 1 In the beginning Think of a big, beautiful, empty land with mountains, forests, lakes, animals, and fish, but no people. This was America 16,000 years ago. Around that time, the first people probably arrived in Alaska from Asia. They traveled south and became the Native Americans of North America, and the Maya, Aztecs, Inca, and other

peoples of Central and South America. The Inuit, Eskimos, came to Canada and the Arctic the same way. But there are only a few of these peoples in America today. In the 16th century, Europeans started to come to America. And soon after that, they brought slaves from Africa to work for them. Large numbers of immigrants continued to

arrive from all over the world until the middle of the 20th century. The empty land was now full of people speaking different languages and with different ideas. There are just three countries now in North America, Canada, Mexico, and the USA. But there were nearly several more. And the 300 million people who live in

the 50 states of the United States are not all the same. About 67% are white, 13% Hispanic, Spanish-speaking, 13% black, 4% Asian, and just 1% Native American. Most of them speak English, but it is not the same English as people speak in Britain. And many Americans speak Spanish as their first language. So,

how was the USA born? How did it grow? What kind of country is it now? This book will try to answer those questions and many more. Chapter two, the Pilgrim Fathers. The name America comes from an Italian businessman called Amerigo Vespucci, who sailed to South America between 1499 and 1502. But he was not the first European to