USA EXPOSITION

CASTILLO ABIGAIL
GUTIERREZ CARLOS
LUNA FERNANDA
GUTIERREZ CARLOS
MONTOYA ANGELES
SERRANO MIGUEL ANGEL
SOTO SILVANA
GEOGRAPHY OF USA

The United States shares land

borders with Canada and Mexico and
maritime borders with Russia, Cuba,
and the Bahamas in addition to
Canada and Mexico. The United
States's northern border with
Canada is the world's longest bi-
national land border.
• The history of the United
States began with
the settlement of Indigenous
people before 10,000
BC. Numerous
cultures formed. The arrival of
Christopher Columbus in
1492.
• The United States became the
world's leading industrial power at
the turn of the 20th century due to
an outburst of entrepreneurship in
the Northeast and Midwest and the
arrival of millions of immigrant
workers and farmers from Europe.

• The Soviet Union was officially

dissolved in 1991, leaving the United
States as the world's only
superpower.
 •In the American
GOVERNMENT federalist system,
AND POLITICS citizens are usually
The United States subject to three levels
is the world's of government:
oldest surviving
federation. federal, state, and
local.
 • The House of
Representatives has 435
voting members, each
GOVERNMENT AND representing a
POLITICS congressional district for a
Legislative:
The bicameral Congress, made
two-year term.
up of the Senate and the
House of Representatives,
• The Senate has 100
makes federal law, declares
war, approves treaties, has the
members with each state
power of the purse, and has having two senators,
the power of impeachment, by
which it can remove sitting elected at-large to six-year
members of the government.
terms
GOVERNMENT AND • The President is the commander-in-chief
POLITICS of the military, can veto legislative bills
before they become law, and appoints
the members of the Cabinet and other
officers, who administer and enforce
Executive: federal laws and policies.
 • The United States has
operated under a two-
GOVERNMENT
AND POLITICS party system for most of
its history
• Democratic Party,
Parties and founded in 1824, and
elections the Republican Party,
founded in 1854
 • The U.S. dollar is the
currency most used in
international transactions
ECONOMY and is the world's foremost
The United reserve currency
States has a • The United States has one
capitalist mixed of the world's largest and
economy[ most influential financial
markets.