In 1888, Rizal visited the United States, arriving in San Francisco and traveling through various cities including Omaha and Chicago, before heading to Canada to see Niagara Falls. He noted both positive aspects, such as the country's material progress and natural beauty, and negative aspects, specifically the lack of racial equality. His journey concluded as he departed from New York to Liverpool on May 16, 1888.

2. Rizal in United
States

3. 
Rizal’s Visit to the United
States
(1888)

4. 
April 28, 1888
The steamer Belgic, with Rizal on board, docked
at San Francisco on Saturday morning

5. 
May 4, 1888
- Friday afternoon the day Rizal was
permitted to go ashore.
- Palace Hotel- Rizal registered here which
was then considered a first-class hotel in the
city.
-Rizal stayed in San Francisco for two days—
May 4 to 6, 1888.

6. Palace Hotel
A place where Rizal Stayed in 2 days

7. 
May 6, 1888
-Sunday,4:30PM,Rizal left San Francisco for
Oakland
-Ferry to Oakland
-Railroad train
-Another ferry from port Costa to Benicia.
-Fields and cattle, but neither huts nor
herdsmen.
-A country store
-Rizal ate in Sacramento

8. Oakland
Ferry and
Railroad
Train

9. 
May 7 1888
- Rizal saw an Indian who was dressed
half-European, half-Indian, leaning
against a wall.
- Wide Arid deserts with few plants and
without trees and shrubs.
-Desolate, Solitary
-Mountains bare. Sandy
-Blue Mountains are visible
-its hot, yet there is a snow on top of
the mountains.

10. 
Snow on top of the mountains

11. 
Wide Arid Desert Blue Mountains

12. 
May 8 1888
-Rizal arrived in Ogden
-Irrigation and a good system of canals it
would be possible to make these fields fertile
-From Ogden to Denver
-Yellow flowers begun to appear by the
roadside
-Salt Lake are lovely
-rocks on one side, on other, the river rushing
excitedly, giving life to the dead landscape
-Many Pine trees
-The snow on the mountains is a dazzling
resplendent white.

13. 

14. 
Salt Lake

15. From
Ogden
to Denver

16. 
Yellow Flowers by Roadside

17. 
May 10 1888
-Nebraska is a level territory
-Rizal reached Omaha, the Biggest
City
-Missouri river twice in Pasig river
-It’s a muddy
-Their banks is not pretty

18. 
Missouri River

20. 
May 11 1888
What Rizal Observe about Chicago is
that every tobacco Store has an
Indian, and every one is Different

21. 
Tobacco Store

22. 
May 12 1888
-Rizal in Canada
-They saw the Niagara Falls
They stood several hours to examine the most
beautiful points.
He stood among the rocks and certainly it was
the grandest cascade he had ever seen.
The mysterious sound that pervading everywhere

23. Niagara
Falls

24. 
May 13 1888

25. 
May 16, 1888
-Rizal left New York for Liverpool
on board the City of Rome.
-According to Rizal, this
steamer was “the second largest
ship in the world the largest being
the Great Eastern”

26. 
Rizal had good and bad impressions of the
United States. The good impressions were
1) the material
progress of the country as shown in the great cities,
2) huge farms, flourishing industries and busy factories.
3) the drive and energy of the American people
4) the natural beauty of the land
5) the high standard of living
6) the opportunities for better life offered to poor
immigrants

27. 
One bad impression Rizal had of
America was the lack of racial
equality:
“America is the land par
excellence of freedom but only for the
whites”