THE USA

Index

• 3: Location• 4: The states• 5: History• 6: Culture• 7: Sports• 8: Food• 9:• 10:

THE USALocation

• Is a country located almost entirely in North America, comprising also a state in Oceania.

THE USAstates

• Is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district.

THE USAHistory

• The name United States of America was proposed by Thomas Paine, and was first officially used in the Declaration of Independence, adopted on 4 July 1776.

• United States emerged from the British colonization of America, starring waves of British immigrants who founded in the XVII and XVIII centuries thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic coast of the North American continent.

THE USACulture

• The United States is a multicultural nation, home to a wide variety of ethnic groups, traditions, and values.

• United States has no official language at federal level. However, the predominant language, which is written in the Constitution and laws, and that performs the duties of the government, is English.

THE USASports

• Since the late 19th century, baseball has been regarded as the national sport; American football, basketball, and ice hockey are the country's three other leading professional team sports.

• Football is now by several measures the most popular spectator sport.

THE USAFood

• The American cuisine is a diverse mix of multi-national cuisines is a style of eating where food is prepared and used to eat quickly in specialized or walking street.