Estados Unidos

Historia 

La fecha de comienzo de la historia de Estados Unidos es tema de debate entre los historiadores. Los libros de texto más antiguos comienzan con la llegada de Cristóbal Colón el 12 de octubre de 1492 o alrededor de 1600, con la llegada del navío Mayflower. No obstante, en las últimas décadas, las escuelas y universidades estadounidenses han retrocedido en el tiempo para incluir más información acerca de los nativos americanos.

Bandera

Escudo

Himno

Oh say, can you see, by the dawn's early light

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?

II

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,

Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,

What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,

As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,

In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:

'Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

III

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore

That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion

A home and a country should leave us no more!

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:

And the star-spangled banner, in triumph doth wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

IV

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand

Between their loved home and the war's desolation!

Blest with victory and peace, may the Heav'n-rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: In God We Trust

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Trajes tipicos

Platos tipicos

Platos típicos de Estados Unidos Hot dog = perro caliente. Los perros calientes, una importación alemana a la gastronomía estadounidense, son salchichas... Hamburger = hamburguesa.

Moneda

Dolares

Mapa

Deporte

 Fútbol americano y la Super Bowl. Sin lugar a dudas, el fútbol americano es el deporte rey en Estados Unidos. Tanto en las universidades como en la liga nacional de fútbol americano, la NFL, los estadios se llenan cada fin de semana.