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Economy The United States is rich in various metals and minerals. It holds first place in the capitalist world for production of coal, iron and oil and it also produces silver and gold. It has a greatly developed car, machine, and ship-building industries, textile and food industries. Agriculture is very wide-spread, above all in the prairie regions, where wheat and other grain crops are grown. Cotton is grown in the Mississippi valley, tobacco in Maryland and Virginia. California is famous for its fruit, and the west for its cattle-farming. Poultry-farming is highly developed in the countryside near all big cities. The United States economy is largely based on a free enterprise system. In this system individuals and companies are free to make their own economic decisions. They have their own raw materials, equipment and other items necessary for production and they decide how to use them in order to earn a profit. Even though U.S

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The largest city is the New York City. The Government is Federal constitutional republic and the president is George W. Bush. 2. Geographical position The United States of America is located on the continent of North America. It has borders with two countries ­ Mexico and Canada. There are also the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico surrounding the big country. There are 50 states in America. Most of the people live in towns. The biggest state is Alaska; next by size are California, Alaska and Montana. Six states - Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts are called New England. They are all small states in the USA that lie in the north- east. The first colony of immigrants settled down in Virginia, in the eastern part of the USA. 3. Relief The USA is situated in the central part of the North American continent. Its western coast is washed by the Pacific Ocean and its eastern coast is washed by the Atlantic Ocean and in the

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standards of living. Its economy is still growing, but several other important countries are growing even faster at the present time. There is a widespread belief, both in America and in other countries, that the United States is in economic decline. Agriculture is very wide-spread, above all in the prairie regions, where wheat and other grain crops are grown. Cotton is grown in the Mississippi valley, tobacco in Maryland and Virginia. California is famous for its fruit, and the west for its cattle-farming. Poultry farming is highly developed in the countryside near all big cities. The United States is rich in various metals and minerals. It holds first place in the capitalist world. The Great Lakes and the rivers, especially the Mississippi, are important waterways. For Americans, democracy means more than majority rule. It also means minority rights. The American democratic government was established in

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and good weather in some places (like California). Many species became extinct soon after the first settlements. The U.S. climate is temperate in most areas, tropical in Hawaii and southern Florida, polar in Alaska, semiarid in the Great Plains, Mediterranean in coastal California and arid in the Great Basin. The droughts and floods are infrequent in America. In north Alaska was recorded the lowest temperature in U.S. -62.2 °C . The highest temperature was recorded in California in Death Valley when the temperature reached 57 °C. The hurricanes occur almost every year along the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricanes can also strike Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. In central portions of the U.S., tornadoes are more common than anywhere else on Earth. The Southwest has the worst droughts. One drought is thought to have lasted over 500 years and to have decimated the Anasazi people. Bald Eagle (National Bird )

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tobacco, turkeys, oranges, potatoes, tomatoes, apples, peanuts and sorghum. Farmers throughout the country rear dairy cattle for milk and other products. Much of the dairy production is concentrated in a belt that extends from Minnesota to New York. Midwestern states account for much of the nation's maize, soybeans and pig production. The nation's chief wheat-growing region stretches across the Great Plains. Most of the chickens are reared in the South. California and states in the South and Southwest produce almost all of the country's cotton. Farmers in other areas also produce poultry, eggs, fruit, vegetables, nuts and many other crops.  The use of modern machinery and agricultural methods has helped make U.S. farms to be one of the most efficient in the world but it has also increased production costs. Many farmers who have been unable to meet these rising costs, have been forced to leave farming and sell their land

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state governments have three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. The chief of the state is elected by governor, who typically holds for a four-year-term. The constitutions of the various states differ in some details, but generally follow the general laws. The government. Relief The country naturally presents a tremendous variety in physical features. The highest peak of US is Mt. McKinley in Alaska at ~6000 metrs, while part of Death Valley in California is 89 metres below sea level. At the western edge of the Atlantic coast plain, are almost unbroken mountains, stretching from the Maine into Alabama, called the Appalachian Mountains. These mountains contain coal and iron. The heart of the U.S is a vas plain named interior plains and are divided into two major parts: the wetter, eastern part is called the Central Plains and the western part the Great Plains, both with very good soil. To the west of the Great Plains is the Cordillera. It is a

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covert anti-semitism. Jews were allowed to leave Russia for Israel, but many had the US as their real goal. Most had no knowledge of Yiddish or Hebrew or the Jewish religion. Immigration after 1985: the Soviet government under Mikhail Gorbachev allowed anyone to leave the Soviet Union. The major group of post-Soviet immigrants were the political refugees, persons who claim persecution or reasonable fear of persecution in Russia. Largest Russian communities today are in New York, California and Florida. 5. From where did the Indians come to America? *Native Americans aka. Indians, Red Indians, Redskins, American Indians, Amerindians, Namerind, First Nations people (Canada) *Origins of N-Am, theories = Bering Land Bridge theory = North American Indians are the people whose ancestors were living in North America when the Europeans discovered the Western Hemisphere. They often are called red men, or redskins, and they were named

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notably spruces and firs. Around the Great Lakes and New England are mixed forests of pines, maples, elms, birches, oaks and beeches. Along the Gulf of Mexico grow magnolia, red and black gum, cypress and mangrove. Geographical Regions The territory of the United can be divided into eight regions: 1) New England; 2) the Mid-Atlantic region; 3) the South; 4) the Midwest; 5) the Southwest; 6) the Rocky Mountain region; 7) the Pacific Northwest and Alaska; 8) California and Hawaii. New England is highly industrial, but it also has many fields, woods and small towns. New England is the part of the United States that is most like "old" England. It includes six states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The Mid-Atlantic region plays an important role in the United States. Its cities include Washington D. C., the nation's capital, and New York City, the nation's financial centre. The Mid-Atlantic region is densely populated

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