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The United States
of America (1)
L'essentiel du cours
Basic facts
Capital city
Currency
The national flag
Washington D:C.
(District of Columbia)
US dollar($)
"The Star Spang/ed Banner" or "Stars and Stripes": 50
white stars (the 50 states) and 13 red and white stripes
(the 13 original colonies).
The national anthem Tl:!_e Star Spangled Banner
- The American Great Sea/
- The Bald Eagle
National emblems
- Unc/eSam
National mottoes
Public ho/idays
- Th!,!-Stat ue of ~iberty
- Epluribus unum
- ln Godwe trust
- 3rd Monday in January: Martin Luther King Day
- 4th Ju/y: lndependence Day
- 1st Monday in September: Labour Day
- 12th October: Columbus Day
- 4th Thursday in November: Thanksgiving
nmerican institutions
Executive power
Judicia/ power
Legislative power
Official documents
- The President: e/ected for a four-year term; lives in the
White House.
- The Cabinet (Attorney General; Vice President;
Secretary of State; Secretary of Defense; Secretary of
the Treasury).
The Supreme Court: ensures that the laws respect the
Constitution.
Congress = the Senate (100 members) + the House of
Representatives (435 members)
- The Declaration oflndependence (1776)
- The Constitution (1787: 27 Amendments):
• 13th Amendment (1865) = abolition of slavery;
• 15th Amendment (1870) = right ta vote for ail men,
Whites and Blacks;
• 19th Amendment (1919) = right to vote for women.
- The Bilrof Rights (1789: first 10 amendments):
• 1st Amendment = freedom of speech, of religion;
• 2nd Amendment = the right to bear arms.
Concepts
1Th-e__imagmary lin_!!_fl_e!1,11een the civilized world (settled
territory) and the wilderness (lndian territory).
As the
pioneers travelled westwards, the Frontier receded.
Between the 16th and 19th centuries, 12 million Africans
were shipped as slayes to the Americas, 645,000 to the
USA to work on the tobacco....
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