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The Congress consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
The Senate and the House of Representatives meet in the Capitol Building to make laws that govern the country.

president of the United States.
Surrounding the monument are 36 marble columns representing the 36 states of the Union at the time of Abraham Lincoln's death.
Inside the monument is a 19 foot white marble statue of Abraham Lincoln. On the walls are etched the words of his Gettysburg Address calling for unity of the country,
"that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Also on the walls are the words of his Second Inaugural Address and murals portraying national unity and the freeing of the slaves.

faces of 4 presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. These presidents symbolize the United States ideals: Washington standing for independence; Jefferson for democracy; Lincoln for equality; and, Roosevelt for the role in world affairs.
Gutzon Borglum, a Danish sculptor, and a crew of over 360 people carved the
monument from
1927 to 1941.
The faces measure
60 feet from chin to
top of head, and
would be 465 feet
tall if the whole
bodies were built
to this scale

and space craft.
Hanging from the
ceiling is the world's
first airplane built
by the Wright brothers.
Also there is
Charles Lindbergh's
"Spirit of St. Louis" which
was the
first airplane to fly
across the Atlantic
Ocean.
On the space front,
there are many
things from early space flights, including the Friendship 7 which was rode by John Glenn when he became the first America in space.
There are also many of the early space rockets, and other space equipment such as the sky lab.

landmarks. It was a gift to the United States from France to commemorate their alliance during the American Revolution. It is located in the New York harbor near Ellis Island.
The statue welcomed new
immigrants to the
United States who entered the
country through Ellis
Island between 1892 and 1954.
The statue is 111 feet,
1 inch tall and made from 225
tons of copper.
It was given to the people of the
United States by France
on July 4, 1884
to commemorate the
100 anniversary of the American
Revolution. It was dedicated
on October 28, 1886.

corpsmen at the battle of Iwo Jima at the end of the Second World War.
The statue is based on Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of five marines and a navy corpsman raising an American flag on Mount Suribachi during the battle of Iwo Jima.
The Vietnam Memorial was built to honor the soldiers who died in the Vietnam War. It is a large black stone wall. On the wall are etched the names of all the United States soldiers who died in the Vietnam War.

the continental army, and first president of the United States.
The monument was completed and dedicated in 1885. It is a white marble structure 555 feet, 5-1/8 inches tall.

has been the home for every U.S. president, except George Washington.
Construction was started on October 13, 1792, on a site selected by George Washington. The house was not completed until 1800, when President John Adams moved in.
The original home
was burned
by the British
in 1814, during
the War of 1812.
The house was rebuilt
and painted white to
cover its fire-blackened
walls. This is how it
got the name the
Whitehouse.