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 in California, overlooks a bay  past:  a Spanish fort  California Gold Rush (1849)  1906 – Great Earthquake  a picturesque city:  steep streets  cable cars  a mix of architecture  Golden Gate Bridge  Chinatown  the oldest  Alcatraz Island  Al Capone

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‘The City of Angels’  the most populous in California, the second largest in the USA, 3 rd largest economic center  past:  founded by Spanish  a part of Mexico (1821 – 48)  1906 – Great Earthquake  world center of: business, international trade, fashion, entertainment, media, science, education…  capital of the film industry:  Hollywood  Beverly Hills  semi-tropical climate  beaches, palms  traffic jams, pollution

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 in Illinois on Michigan Lake, near the Mississippi River  third most populous  food and engineering industry  Willis (Sears)Tower, universities  O`Hare Airport  Czech (Ant. Čermák), Slovak, Polish communities  basketball: Chicago Bulls  in Michigan  French settlement (Ant. Cadillac)  industrial city: Ford, General Motors, Chrysler  Motown – soul music  Suzi Quatro, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder  81% African - Americans

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 New Orleans  in Lousiana, port, French origin – French Quarter, cradle of jazz  Boston  in Massachusetts, ‘Cradle of Liberty’, Boston Tea Party, Harvard University, MIT (Cambridge)  Nashville  in Tennessee, capital of country music  Houston  in Texas, oil centre, NASA base  Miami  in Florida, Spanish, tropical climate – Miami Beach, ‘Gateway to America’, culture, trade, industry, education  Dallas  in Texas, oil industry, cotton market, J. F. Kennedy

 Yellowstone National Park  Wyoming, Montana, Idaho  lakes, canyons, rivers, geysers, waterfalls, mud volcanoes, mountains  grizzly, black bear, wapiti dear, wolves, bison, bald eagle…subalpine forest  hiking, camping, boating, fishing  Yosemite NP  California, Sierra Nevada  Yosemite Valley, Giant Sequoia  granite cliffs (El Capitan), canyons, waterfalls, glaciers…  Everglades NP  Florida  crocodiles, aligators, panthers, birds, mangrove ecosystems  recreation: camping, ski jets, airboats  Grand Canyon  Arizona, Colorado Plateau  Colorado River, Pueblo people

 Niagara Falls – 52m  Meteor Crater - Arizona  Monument Valley – AZ, red stone spires /’Desert Gothic’  Disney World – Orlando, LA  Little Bighorn Battlefield  New Mexico  Seattle – Washington, beautiful  Princeton – univers, A. Einstein  Philadelphia – Declaration, Constitution  New Haven - Yale  Plymouth - pilgrims  Mt Rushmore – S. Dakota, 4 prezidents

Autor DUM: Mgr. Darina Sikorová