求这几句话出自哪里?1.The rush for gold in California,for silver in Mo

求这几句话出自哪里?
1.The rush for gold in California,for silver in Montana,and for fertile land in all the western territories provided endless stories of high adventure.
2.A group of English Puritans went through a lot of hardship by “Mayflower”,crossing the Atlantic Ocean and arriving at the American New World.At that time,with their only hope to escape religious persecution,seeking freedom of religion,they never expected that in the future their arrival brought hope to the subsequent generations.Even for those settlers who were not so religiously inclined,America was still a fairly-land,a land of great possibilities.In the eyes of these early pioneers or called frontiers,the new continent represented a new life of freedom and vitality,holding a promise of spiritual and material happiness.

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