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  • United States of America
    The world's third largest country in size and nearly the third largest in terms of population, located in North America between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
  • The United States has mountains, lakes, rivers, deserts, and islands
  • Official name, form of government, capital, population, languages, money, area, major mountain ranges, major rivers, Great Lakes
    • United States of America
    • Constitution-based federal republic
    • Washington, D.C.
    • 330,175,936
    • English, Spanish (no official national language)
    • U.S. dollar
    • 3,794,083 square miles (9,826,630 square kilometers)
    • Rocky Mountains, Appalachian Mountains
    • Mississippi, Missouri, Colorado, Rio Grande
    • Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario
  • Geography of the United States
    • Third largest country in size, located in North America, bordered by Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Canada, and Mexico, has 50 states and 5 major territories, Hawaii and Alaska are far from the continental mainland, has high mountains in the West and a vast central plain, lowest point is Death Valley, highest peak is Denali (Mt. McKinley)
  • The United States has been a nation of immigrants throughout its history
  • Regions of the United States

    • New England
    • Mid-Atlantic
    • South
    • Midwest
    • Southwest
    • West
  • New England
    Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, settled by European settlers seeking religious freedom
  • Mid-Atlantic
    Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., industrial areas that attracted European immigrants
  • South
    Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, struggled after the Civil War
  • Midwest
    Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, home to the country's agricultural base
  • Southwest
    Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, beautiful stark landscape of prairie and desert, home to natural marvels like the Grand Canyon and Carlsbad Caverns
  • West
    Alaska, Colorado, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, diverse landscape from endless wilderness to barren desert, coral reefs to Arctic tundra, Hollywood to Yellowstone
  • A monarchy is a form of government where a single person, the monarch, rules the country.
  • An oligarchy is a form of government where a small group of people holds power.
  • civil society is the sphere between family, market, state
  • civil society can be seen as an arena where citizens come together to influence public policy or hold government accountable
  • state is a political entity with sovereignty within a given territory
  • the state is an organization that has power over its citizens
  • the civil society includes voluntary associations such as clubs, churches, trade unions, political parties, charities, pressure groups, etc.
  • civil society is the sum total of all non-governmental institutions, organizations, associations, groups, clubs, movements, etc.
  • A democracy is a form of government where the people have the authority to choose their governing legislation.
  • An oligarchy is a system of government by a small group of people who hold most or all of the power.
  • The United States has been described as an "oligarchy" because it is dominated by wealthy elites with disproportionate political influence.
  • The United States has a federal system of government, with powers divided between the national (federal) government and individual states.
  • The President serves as both head of state and head of government.
  • The U.S. Constitution establishes the structure and powers of these institutions.
  • In a democracy, citizens have equal rights and opportunities to participate in decision making through free elections and representation.
  • The United Nations (UN) was established on October 24, 1945, following World War II.
  • At the height of the most recent Ice Age, about 35,000 years ago, much of the world's water was locked up in vast continental ice sheets
  • A land bridge as much as 1,500 kilometers wide connected Asia and North America
  • By 12,000 years ago, humans were living throughout much of the Western Hemisphere
  • The first Americans crossed the land bridge from Asia and were believed to have stayed in what is now Alaska for thousands of years
  • They then moved south into the land that was to become the United States
  • Early groups of Native Americans

    • Hohokam
    • Adenans
    • Hopewellians
    • Anasazi
  • Early Native American groups

    • Built villages and grew crops
    • Some built mounds of earth in the shapes of pyramids, birds, or serpents
    • Their life was closely tied to the land, and their society was clan-oriented and communal
    • Elements of the natural world played an essential part in their spiritual beliefs
    • Their culture was primarily oral, although some developed a type of hieroglyphics to preserve certain texts
    • There was a good deal of trade among the groups but also that some of their relations were hostile
  • For reasons not yet completely understood, these early groups disappeared over time and were replaced by other groups of Native Americans, including Hopi and Zuni, who flourished
  • By the time Europeans reached what is now the United States, about two million native people, maybe more, lived here
  • The first Europeans to arrive in North America were Norse
  • Erik the Red founded a settlement in Greenland
    Around 985
  • Leif, Erik the Red's son, is thought to have explored the northeast coast of what is now Canada
    1001