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Title: THE USA


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THE USA
  • CAPITAL CITY WASHINGTON DC (District of
    Columbia)
  • POPULATION 280million
  • STATES50 (with Alaska and Hawaii separated)
  • LANGUAGESEnglish and Spanish
  • FORM OF GOVERNAMENT Federal Republic
  • HEAD OF THE STATE the President

2
THE FLAG OF THE USA
  • The flag of the USA is called the stars and
    stripes.
  • There are 50 white stars (each one represents one
    state) and 13 stripes (each one represents the
    original 13 states founded by the colonists)

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NEW YORK
4
HISTORY
  • Dutch colonists bought this area from Native
    Americans(Indians) and called it New Amsterdam.
  • British arrived and took possession of it. They
    changed the name and called the city New York.
  • The city is divided into 5 boroughs Bronx,
    Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island.

5
You can see
  • Central Park
  • China Town
  • Little Italy
  • The Empire State Building
  • Ground Zero
  • Ellis Island
  • The Statue of Liberty

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ELLIS ISLAND AND THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
  • In the past 12 million immigrants arrived in New
    York by ship. The ships stopped at the
    immigration centre on Ellis Island where the
    immigrants were checked. This island is now a
    museum and a
  • popular place
  • reminding
  • New Yorkers their
  • origins.

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  • The first thing immigrants
  • saw was the Statue of Liberty,
  • which stands in New York
  • Harbour. For this reason it
  • became a symbol of freedom
  • and opportunity.
  • The Statue of Liberty was made
  • in France and transported to
  • the USA in 1885.
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