humid continental in the north
humid subtropical in the south
30% of the entire world's millionaire population
federal constitutional republic
representative democracy
federal government
Lagislative branch
Senate
House of Representatives
Executive
the President
the Cabinet
Judicial
Supreme Court
federal courts
main political parties
Democratic Party
Republican Party
310 million people
immigrants from many countries
1492, Christopher Columbus
revolutionary period of the 1760s and early 1770s
1775-1781, Revolutionary War
July, 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence
1861-1865, Civil War
1929 -early 1940s, Great Depression
1945-1989, Cold War
Christian
Protestant
Roman Catholicism
Evangelicals
Judaism
Buddhism
Islam
Hinduism
Unitarian Universalism
Agnostic
Atheist
No religion
United States Department of Education
nursary school
primary school
secondary school
higher education
Literature
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Toni Morrison
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
John Barth
Thomas Pynchon
Don DeLillo
Philosophy
transcendentalists
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American philosophical movement
Henry David Thoreau
pragmatism
Charles Sanders Peirce
William James
John Dewey
analytic philosophy
W. V. Quine
Richard Rorty
Noam homsky
political philosophy
John Rawls
Robert Nozick
Art
Hudson River School
naturalism
realism
modernistm
подтема
подтема
Armory Show
Georgia O'Keeffe
Marsden Hartley
abstract expressionism
Jackson Pollock
Willem de Kooning
pop art
Andy Warho
Roy Lichtenstein
postmodernism
Frank Lloyd Wright
Philip Johnson
Frank Gehry