usa (ivantorre power point)

USA

Poblaction and states :

• USA have 252 million people.

• The people live in 50 states.

The name of USA

• The name of USA come to a bussinesman called Amerigo Vespucci.

The War of Independence

• The leader of the american army was a farmer called George Washington.

• The War of the Independence was in 1776.

The Civil War

• The Civil War was in 1861 and 600.000 people died.

The Wild West

• The cowboys disappeared about 1860.

• From 1862-1900 more than a half million farmers came to live in the West.

• In 1869 apperared the railway in the West.

New Americans.

About 27 million of people arrived between 1880-1930.

In 1948 there were 300.000 Chinese inmigrants.

Black americans.

Today about 30 million of the 252 million people in the USA are black.

In the twentieth century, black people began travel to the cities of the North and later to California

The government of the USA

• There are three branches: Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court.

• The President lives in the White House in Washington DC

Living in the Usa.

• The live is better then other countries.

• The favourite sports is basketball

Cities.

• Boston is the most important city and there was the Harvard University.

Lakes.

• The most important lakes are: Erie, Ontario, Huron, Michigan and Superior and between two of this lakes are the Niagara Falls.

Rivers.

• The most important river is the Mississippi River is 3778 kilometres long.

Mountains.

• The most important mountais are the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.

Deserts.

• The most important desert is the desert of Arizona and in this desert are the famous Gran Canyon.

California.

• Is the state of differences. On day in in 1913 there was 56.7ºC. But the North of the state was very cold.

• The most important cities in California were: San Francisco and Los Angeles.

The end.

• This is a power point of the USA