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Aims:
to get more information about the biography
of the first president of the USA George Washington
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Founder- негізін қалаушы
Manor-жекежай
Wealthy family- бай отбасы
Slight- азғантай
Surveyor- жер
өлшеуші
Military experience- әскери тәжірибе
Commander-in-chief- әскери қолбасшы
Colonel-полковник
Ratify-бекіту
Unanmously- бірауыздан
Family vault- отбасылық
склеп
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The Americans often call this man “The Father
of our country”.And of course, he was one of
the founders of the USA.For nearly twenty years he guided his country much as father cares for a growing child.
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The first president of the USA
G. Washington was born on
the 22nd of February, 1732 in Virginia in a wealthy family, in a manor
Mount Vernon
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His formal education was slight:no more than 7-8
years of school. Men, plantation life,and the haunts of
river,fields and forests were his principal teachers.His favourite subject was arithmetic.He studied enough Geography to know something of the outside world.But he never learned very much about literature,foreign languages and History.
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At the age of 14 he began to
work as a surveyor,which is a way of taking
measures and making maps, making many trips into the wilderness areas of Virginia and Pennsylvania.
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His first military experience came in the French
and Indian wars
(1754-1763).
In 1754 he fought against 300
French soldiers ,by this time he was a colonel.
A year later, in 1755 he was elected a commander-in- chief of the Continental Army
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In 1759,in January he married to Martha
Dandridge,a rich widow.They had no children.He was a progressive
farmer at that time
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In 1787 George Washington took part in writing
the Constitution for the new country.
After the Constitution had
been ratified in 1789,on 30th of April Washington was unanimously elected to be the president. He still remains the only president who received 100% of electoral votes.