12 FACTS ABOUT AMERICAS

THATS THE IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT AMERICA YOU MUST KNOW

• 1.Must know that the USA is a Federal Republic.
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• 2.Independence Was Declared on July 4, 1776.
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• 3.Columbus Discovered the America in 1442.
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• 4.The North American Continent Has Been Populated for Over 15,000 Years as anicient civilization
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• 5.The USA Waged a War of Independence from Britain.
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• 5.George Washington Was the First President of the United States.
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• 7.The most American thing in America.” So said President Theodore Roosevelt of the education movement known as Chautauqua. The origins of Chautauqua (pronounced “Shuh-TAW-Kwa”) can be found in the Chautauqua Lake area of upstate New York, where the movement began in 1874.(source)

• 8.The United States is the only country that has all of Earth's five climate zones: tropical, dry, temperate, continental, and polar.

9. The United States is the third most visited country by international tourists after Spain and France...

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10.Lake Superior is the world's largest freshwater lake by surface area at 31,700 square miles, or 82,100 square kilometers—or roughly the size of Maine. It also holds 10 percent of the world's surface fresh water. Its 3 quadrillion gallons are enough to cover both North and South America under one foot of water..

11. The USA is the world leader in space exploration, aerospace and aviation, hands down. The nation reaffirmed its top spot with the recent SpaceX rocket launch, which was the first ever commercialised space flight.(see top richest people blog)

12.Up until the 1970s, these first Americans had a name: the Clovis peoples. They get their name from an ancient settlement discovered near Clovis, New Mexico, dated to over 11,000 years ago. And DNA suggests they are the direct ancestors of nearly 80 percent of all indigenous people in the Americas.