NORTH AMERICAN

REGIONS
I. Atlantic Coastal Plain

c. Washington, D.C.
 Key
 Red-Term to define and remember
 Yellow-Place to locate and remember
 Green-Resource to know and
remember
 Bright Green-Agricultural product
(crop) to remember
 White, Blue and Brown-Narration to
help understanding
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District of Columbia

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Piedmont Ri
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Maryland
 English Land Survey System
 Uses natural features for boundaries
 Results in small irregularly shaped
fields
 Also called metes and bounds system
 Found in areas settled by the English
 Thirteen original states
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Washington
Poto
Monument
Capitol

The Mall

White
House
Washington, D.C.
 Washington Monument

Capitol
Lincoln Memorial

Arlington National Cemetery

Kennedy Gravesite
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
 Lee Mansion

Potomac Estuary
USS Maine Memorial
Arlington National Cemetery
John F. Kennedy Grave
View from the Kennedy Gravesite
The Mall
Close Up Washington (1999)
Close Up Washington 2005
The Mall
Smithsonian Castle
Smithsonian Museum of
Natural History
The National Museum of the American Indian

The newest Smithsonian on the Mall

Capitol Steps with Senator Bond
Capitol Steps with Senator Talent
In representative
Carnahan’s office
In the Senate Subway
The Speaker’s Balcony with
Senator Talent
Chambers of the Speaker of the
House with Representative Talent
Under the Capitol Rotunda with
Senator Talent
The Frisk
 Capitol Hill

Capitol

Supreme Court Library of Congress

Senate House
The Supreme Court
Library of Congress
Library of
Congress
Interior
Library of Congress--Interior
 Capitol Hill

Capitol

Supreme Court Library of Congress

Senate House
Washington Monument
 Lincoln Memorial
from the Washington Monument
 inia
Arlington,Virg

Potomac Lincoln Memorial

The Mall

World War II Memorial

(under construction)
 4000 Gold Stars
Each representing 100 Americans who
gave their lives during World War II
Lincoln Memorial
 Reflecting Pool

Fo
rre
st!
!
Je
n ny
! !

From Lincoln Memorial

Sunset
Marine (Iwo Jima) Memorial
Einstein and Friends
Vietnam Memorial
Vietnam
Nurses’
Memorial
Korean War Memorial
FDR-Four Rooms/Four Terms
The turbulence of the water and the order of
the granite blocks reflects the disturbances
of the term.
The First Term/The Depression
The Third Term--WWII
Note the chair
Eleanor Roosevelt
 Jefferson Memorial
Reagan/National Airport

Tidal Basin
 The Pentagon

Notice!

Under Repair
Thomas
Jefferson
Memorial
White House

Jefferson’s View
The South Front
The North Front
The West Wing
The Press Corps
 Across the Street from the
White House
Blair
Smithsonian
House
Renwick
Gallery

Street no
w closed
The Church of the Presidents
Church of the Presidents
 Holy
Trinity
Lutheran
Church
 The
Catholic
Basilica of
the National
Shrine of
the
Immaculate
Conception
 The
National
Cathedral
Washington Neighborhood

Gentrification
Washington Neighborhoods
Washington Neighborhoods
Old Town Alexandria, Va.
Alexandria’s
Old Episcopal
Church
Memorial to . .?

Japanese
internment
camps
Teacher
African-American Civil War
Memorial
The Burghers of
Calais by Rodin

Additional copies
located near
Parliament in
London, U.K.,
and Paris,
France
Theodore
Roosevelt
National
Memorial
(Island)
Theodore
Roosevelt
National
Memorial
Cenotaphs
Vaults
Gerrymandering
The Awakening
The Smithsonian National Zoo
National Building Museum
Interior
What’s This Building?
 Definitions
 Georgian Style House – an 18th century
building style with strict symmetry and dentil
trim
 Fall Line – a series of waterfalls located where
rivers fall off the hard rock of the Piedmont
down to the soft sedimentary rock of the
Coastal Plain
 The Mall – a 2 mile lawn in the center of
Washington, D.C.
 Gentrification- Converting low income
neighborhoods into wealthier ones
 Gerrymandering – creating elongated election
districts to benefit a particular group.
 Map
Placement
Atlantic Coastal Plain
Washington, D.C.

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