A quick trip

through the USA

Table of contents  Grammar correction
 Symbols
 Currency
 Territories
 System of government
 Political polarization
 History
 Tourism (NY)
 Tourism (other)
 Literature, Music
 Painting
 Web quest
Grammar
corrections
week 6
 What are these famous US

Symbols
symbols? What do they
represent?
 The “Stars and Stripes”
 Seal of the president of
the United States
 The White House
 The Lincoln Monument
 The Liberty Bell
 Uncle Sam
 The Lincoln Memorial
 The Washington
Monument
 The Statue of Liberty
 The Capitol
 Bald Eagle
 Who are the famous
people on US currency,
Currency coins and bills?

Bills
 George Washington.
 Thomas Jefferson.
 Abraham Lincoln.
 Alexander Hamilton.
 Ulysses S. Grant.
 Benjamin Franklin.

Coins
 Abraham Lincoln
 Thomas Jefferson
 Dwight D. Eisenhower
 George Washington
 John F. Kennedy

source: isl collective, lorenaosmiono

US territories & date of acquisition
 System of government

Political parties
 Which parties do these
animals represent?
 What do you know about
their politics and policies?
US History

• When did Columbus “discover” the New World?

• Why were the first slaves broght to America?

• Why was the Plymouth colony founded?

• What was the original name of New York?

• Why were the colonists unhappy with British rule?

• What was the trail of tears?

• What happened at the Battle of Gettysburg?

• What was the Dust Bowl?

• Wht was the New Deal?

• What was Watergate?

Pre-Columbian America

• https://www.savetheboundarywaters.org/s
ites/default/files/attachments/tribal_natio
ns_map_-_10-01-2015_-_nc_-_borders.pdf
• Deux exemples: Mississipian et Pueblo
European
arrival
Columbus: 1492
Ponce de Léon: 1513
Jacques Cartier: 1534
Thanksgiving and First
colonists
Racist laws

•Slavery: 1500s to 1865

•Black codes: 1860s
•Jim Crow Laws (1876-1965)
•Redlining: 1930s post New
Deal
The Constitution
and the War of
Independence
• “The shot heard ‘round the
world” – 1775
• Declaration of Independence –
1776
• Constitution - 1789
Manifest Destiny
and Westward
expansion
Civil War – 1861-1865
A Nation of
Immigrants
Depression, Dust Bowl, New Deal
Global Superpower
Malaise and
Reaganism
Donald
Trump
Political
Politicalpolarisation
polarisation

These are some of the polarizing issues in US politics:

 race
 climate change
 guns
These maps show the divide between Democratic areas  death penalty
(blue) and Republican areas (red) in the last presidential  role of religion in public life
election. The divide is both between States (top two images)  role of the government
and between rural and urban America (counties, in the  military spending
bottom image). The cartograms show the division in terms  education
of Electoral College votes (top) and population (bottom).  immigration
Notice how more geographical areas are Republican, while
more people (in big cities) vote Democrat.
Major Tourist Locations (outside
NY)
New York, New York
 Marylin Diptych, Andy
Warhol

Nighthawks, Edward
Hopper

US painting
Keith
Scull, Jean-Michel Basquiat Haring

WHAAM!, Roy Lichtenstein

Whistler’s Mother,
Freedom from Want, James McNeill
American Gothic, Black Iris,
Norman Rockwell Whistler
Georgia
Some other artists (non cinema!)
US Culture •Find information online about the following
regions. Find out something interesting about
Web quest the local culture – festivals, tourist sites, food,
pastimes, sports, particularities, fun things
you’d want to do.
East Coast
West Coast
Midwest
South
Hawaii