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2. 1. The Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was a gift of friendship from France to
the United States.
It is an icon of freedom welcoming immigrants arriving from
abroad.
It is the figure of the Roman goddess of freedom, Libertas.
She holds a torch in one hand and a tablet in her other. The
tablet has the date of the American Declaration of
Independence, July 4, 1776. At her feet lies a broken chain.
It was dedicated on October 28, 1886, and was declared a
national monument in 1924.
It is located on Liberty Island in Manhattan, New York.
It is 93 meters tall and has about 3.2 million visitors each
year.
3.
4. 2. Twin Towers or
World Trade Center
The original World Trade Center was constructed between
1975 and 1985.
It was located in New York City.
It was considered the tallest building in the world.
On Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, they were attacked by
al-Qaeda terrorists flying airplanes which ended in their
destruction and killed about 2,700 people. This event was
devastating to the U.S. and to the world. It caused global
economic effects because Wall Street was closed until Sept.
17 and started a conflict between the U.S. and countries
such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
Since 2006, there has been construction to rebuild the Twin
Towers.
5.
6. 3. Niagara Falls
Three waterfalls are found on the international border
between Canada and the United States.
The falls have the highest flow rate of any waterfall in
the world.
With vertical lengths of more than 50 meters.
They were formed when water from the Great Lakes
carved a path on the way to the Atlantic Ocean.
They are known for their beauty and hydroelectric
power.
7.
8.
9. 4. Liberty Bell
This bell was initially rang for public announcements,
but in the 1830s, it was adopted as a symbol of the
movement to ban slavery.
In the late 1800s, the Liberty Bell traveled around the
country to help heal the divisions of the Civil War.
It reminded Americans of older days when they fought
and worked together for Independence.
In 1915, the bell came back to Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. It represents the idea of the freedom that
people fought for in American history.
10.
11. 5. White House
The first American president, George Washington
selected the site for the White House in 1971 in
Washington D.C. located between Maryland and
Virginia.
In 1800, President John Adams and his wife were the
first to live in the house.
Fun Facts:
There are 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, and 6 levels to the
house. There are 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces,
8 staircases, and 3 elevators.
The white house kitchen is able to serve dinner to more
than 140 people.
To paint the White House it would take 3,786 liters of
paint.
12.
13. 6. Washington Monument
The Washington Monument is built in Washington D.C.
to honor the first American president, George
Washington.
The monument is made of marble, granite, and
bluestone gneiss.
It is the world’s tallest stone structure standing 169.3
meters.
Its construction began in 1848 and finished in 1884
14.
15.
16. 7. Lincoln Memorial
It was built in 1922 to honor the 16th President
Abraham Lincoln.
It is located in Washington D.C. across from the
Washington Monument.
It contains two inscriptions of famous speeches written
by Abraham Lincoln.
It was the site for Martin Luther King’s “I Have a
Dream” speech on August 28, 1963.
17.
18.
19. 8. Pentagon
This is the headquarters of the United States
Department of Defense located in Arlington County,
Virginia.
It was constructed on January 15, 1943.
It has 5 sides, 5 floors above ground, and two
basement levels.
Like the Twin Towers, it was also attacked by an
airplane on Sept. 11, 2001.
20.
21. 9. Gateway Arch
Located in St. Louis, Missouri, it stands 192 meters
high.
It is built of stainless steel and is the tallest man-made
monument in the United States. It is also the world’s
tallest arch.
Construction began on February 12, 1963, and was
completed on October 28, 1965.
It is known as a monument to the expansion to the west
that occurred in the pioneer days.
22.
23.
24. 10. Mount Rushmore
The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture
carved into the side of a mountain near Keystone,
North Dakota.
It features 18 meter sculptures of George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham
Lincoln. It represents four of the great presidents of the
United States.
More than 3 million people visit it each year.
25.
26.
27. 11. Crazy Horse Memorial
This is a similar structure to Mount Rushmore. It is
located in Custer County, South Dakota about 27
kilometers from Mount Rushmore.
It depicts Crazy Horse, an Oglala Indian Warrior riding
a horse and pointing into the distance.
It is still being constructed, but when it’s finished, it will
be 195 meters wide and 172 meters high.
It is in honor of the Indians and their great leaders that
were some of the first people in America.
28.
29. 12. Pikes Peak
This is a mountain in the Rocky Mountains about 16
kilometers from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Originally named “El Capitán” by Spanish settlers, the
mountain was renamed in 1806 after Zebulon Pike, Jr.,
an explorer who led an expedition in southern
Colorado.
It is 4,302 meters above sea level.
30.
31.
32. 13. Old Faithful Geyser
This is a geyser located in Wyoming, in Yellowstone
National Park.
Old Faithful was named in 1870.
It is the most predictable geographical feature on Earth.
It erupts almost every 91 minutes.
Yellowstone National Park is located over the
Yellowstone Caldera or supervolcano. Half of the
worlds geothermal features are found in this active
volcano.
33.
34.
35. 14. The Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by
the Colorado River in Arizona.
It is considered one of the Seven Natural Wonders of
the World.
It is 446 kilometers long and up to 29 kilometers wide.
You can see 2 billion years of the Earths geological
history from the different layers of rock.
The first European known to have viewed the Grand
Canyon was Garcia Lopez de Cárdenas from Spain in
1540
36.
37. 15. Golden Gate Bridge
This is a bridge in California that links the U.S. city of
San Francisco to Marin County.
It is an internationally recognized symbol of San
Francisco, California.
It opened in 1937 and is 1,280 meters long.
Before it opened people had to take ferries (boats) from
one side of the channel to the other. It took 27 minutes
to go across the channel.