(history, geographical features, system of government, lifestyle, regions, sights, industries)
1) The USA
• 4th largest country of the world
• border on Mexico, Canada, Atlantic and Pacific oceans
• part of USA – Alaska, Hawaiian Islands
• population over 250 million
• head of state – president George Bush jr., federation of 50 states
• currency US Dollar
• flag: blue oblong with 50 stars and white oblong with red stripes
• leading position in industrial production (transportation equipment, food products, chemicals, mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, textile etc.) and agricultural production (wheat, soya beans, oats, potatoes, cotton, tobacco etc.)
• discovered on 12th October 1492 by Christopher Columbus
• settlement started in 1620
• 18th century the Movement for Independence (George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson)
• 19th century the Civil War (Abraham Lincoln)
2) Nature
• eastern region: Appalachians
• western region: Cordilleras (Rocky Mountains, Great Basin with Death Valley, Colorado Plateau with Grand Canyon)
• Great Californian Valley surrounded by Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada and Coast Range
• highest peak – Mt. McKinley in Alaska
• rivers Mississippi, Missouri, Hudson (connected to Great Lakes), Colorado, Columbia, Rio Grande, Yukon
• Great Lakes: Lake Superior, Huron, Erie, Ontario, Michigan (border with Canada, Michigan belongs only to USA)
• the Grand Canyon, rock valley 350km long, 6 to 29km wide, up to 1.7km deep
• Yellowstone National Park, in the Rocky Mountains, largest and oldest nature reserve in the USA
3) Cities
• Washington D. C., capital of the USA, building of Capitol (the Senate Wing, the House of Representatives Wing) – houses the US Congress; Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, The Pentagon, The White House
• New York, largest city, industrial port; five parts (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Richmond); financial center Wall Street; large number of skyscrapers, the Statue of Liberty, WTC destroyed by terrorist attack, the Empire State Building
• Los Angels, 2nd largest, known for Hollywood (center of film industry), Beverly Hills; each year American Film Academy awards Oscars, center of crime, university Caltech, Disneyland
• San Francisco, one of the cleanest cities, Golden Gate Bridge
• New Orleans, the city where jazz was born
• Houston, famous for NASA base (National Army Space Academy)
• Florida, tourist area, long beaches on Miami
• Philadelphia, place where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed
• Chicago, first skyscraper in the world, the highest skyscraper is Sears Tower (almost half kilometer high), gangsters’ city during prohibition (Al Capone)
• Detroit, center of US car industry (Ford, Chrysler, General Motors, Chevrolet, Cadillac)
• Dallas, oil industry, John F. Kennedy was killed there, TV serial Dallas
• Boston, often called Cradle of Liberty, known for Boston Tea Party in 1775
• Cambridge, seat of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Plymouth, first pilgrims settled there in 1620
• Princeton, seat of Princeton University where Albert Einstein gave his lectures
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