History
This holiday is celebrated on the 4th of July in the United States of America.
Independence day
This American invention uses a system of satellites originally developed for military navigation and is now used globally for mapping and location services.
GPS
Placed in the border between New York and Ontario, Canada, this world-famous trio of roaring waterfalls is a massive tourist destination and a major source of hydroelectric power.
Niagara Falls
A gift from France to the United States in 1886, this massive copper monument stands tall in New York.
Statue of Liberty.
Invented by American scientist Samuel Morse in the 1830s, this revolutionary communication system used a series of long and short electrical pulses—dots and dashes—to send messages across long distances.
Morse Code
Who was the first president of the United States?
George Washington
This company began in the 1990s as an online marketplace focused on books, before expanding into one of the largest global technology and retail platforms.
Amazon
Carved out over millions of years by the Colorado River in Arizona, this natural world wonder stretches 277 miles long and plunges over a mile deep into the earth.
Grand Canyon
Carved directly into the granite face of a mountain in South Dakota, this massive monument features the 60-foot-tall faces of four iconic US presidents.
Mount Rushmore
In December 1903, these two bicycle-building brothers from Ohio made global history by achieving the first-ever sustained, controlled, powered flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
The Wright Brothers
This 1787 document created the system of government used in the United States today.
U.S. Constitution
This area in California became synonymous with startups, venture capital, and major tech companies like Apple and Google.
Silicon Valley
This iconic Brooklyn seaside resort became the birthplace of the modern American amusement park in the late 19th century, featuring historic rides like the Wonder Wheel.
Coney Island
This world-famous, bright orange suspension bridge spans a one-mile-wide strait connecting the city of San Francisco to the Pacific Ocean.
Golden Gate Bridge.
While he didn’t invent the automobile itself, this legendary industrialist revolutionized global manufacturing in 1913 by introducing the moving assembly line to mass-produce the Model T car.
Henry Ford
This 1930s economic crisis caused widespread unemployment and poverty in the United States.
The Great Depression
This digital currency was the first of its kind and is often used as a benchmark for all other cryptocurrencies.
Bitcoin
Holding the record as the lowest, hottest, and driest point in all of North America, this hyper-arid basin located within the Mojave Desert famously plunges to 282 feet below sea level.
Death Valley
This massive, 19-building Art Deco complex in Midtown Manhattan is a global media hub, famous for hosting NBC Studios and having a legendary outdoor ice-skating rink.
Rockefeller Center
In 1960, American physicist Theodore Maiman successfully built the world's very first working model of this device, single-color beam now used in everything from barcode scanners to surgery.
Laser
This war was fought between the North and South in the United States from 1861–1865.
American Civil War
GM’s flagship luxury brand, known for high-end sedans and premium SUVs.
Cadillac
This famous geographic feature in the western United States marks the mountainous line where water on one side flows toward the Atlantic Ocean, and water on the other side flows toward the Pacific.
Continental Divide
This place is at the heart of Manhattan, and is one of the most beloved and visited public place, and has appeared it hundreds of famous Hollywood movies.
Central Park
Invented entirely by accident in 1945 by American engineer Percy Spencer while he was working on military radar technology, this appliance was born when a chocolate bar in his pocket suddenly melted.
Microwave Oven