NEW ENGLAND

YANKEES

Jankees – a combination of Jan Kees meaning – JOHN CHEESE -

a nickname applied by Dutch settlers.

Rivers

• The Mississippi River – Father of waters (Minnesota)

• The Ohio River

• The Hudson River

• The Potomac River

• The Columbia River

• The Colorado River

• The Rio Grande River

• The Missuri

• The Yukon

Regions

• New England

• The Mid-Atlantic Region

• The South

• The Midwest

• The Southwest

• The Rocky Mts Region

• The Northwest and Alaska

• California and Hawaii

The Mid-Atlantic Region

States

1. Delaware

2. Maryland

3. New York

4. New Jersey

5. Pennsylwania

6. District of Columbia

7. West Virginia

• The region is relatively small but one in every ten Americans lives there (very densly populated)

• The largest American cities and ports are located in the region

• WASHINGTON D.C. - no sky scrappers

• George Washington decided about the place of capital city of U.S.A. - Washington D.C.

• The city was founded in 1791.

• Columbia in 'District of Columbia' stands for Christopher Columbus

• The city was planned by a French artist – Pierre L'Enfant

The Capital – building which houses the American Congres

The Pentagon – US Department of Defense building

George Washington Memorial

Nation's first President – The Father of the country

The Lincoln Memorial

• A tribute to the nation's greatest president, the man who:

1. led the country through the Civil War

Thomas Jefferson Memorial

• A tribute to the multitalented man, an architect, an inventor, a diplomat, the author of Declaration of Independent (1776)

• The third President of USA

Martin Luther King's Monument ( unveiled on 16 October, 2011)

• M.L King Memorial was carved in China by a Chinese sculptor Mr Lei Yixin

• The Stone of Hope

Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County

• burried the distinguished soldiers

• Kennedy who was assassinated

The Tomb of the Unknowns

• 4 unknown soldiers

The Smithsonian Institution

• most important American Museum

Big Ports of the Mid-Atlantic region

• New York

• Philadelphia

• Baltimore

The importance of the region in the past

• The Declaration of Independence and the U.S Constitution were written and signed there – Philadelphia

Economy of the region

• Coal mining – Pennsylvania and West Virginia

• Heavy Indutry – they produde iron, glass and steal