WASHINGTON D.C.

OUR NATION’S CAPITAL

WASHINGTON MONUMENT

A MONUMENT HONORS A SPECIAL PERSON OR EVENT

WASHINGTON MONUMENT HONORS GEORGE WASHINGTON, OUR 1ST PRESIDENT

JEFFERSON MEMORIAL

Memorial to Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President

Author of the Declaration of Independence

Completed in 1943, 200th anniversary of his birth

LINCOLN MEMORIAL

Honors Abraham Lincoln, our 16th President

The Gettysburg Address is engraved on the wall

38 marble columns and 56 steps

OUR CAPITOL

Capitol Building has a large dome

Congress makes the laws for our country

100 Senators – 2 from each state

440 members of the the House of Representatives

SUPREME COURT Highest court in the

land Settles questions

about the law 9 Justices –serve in

their job as long as they wish

Justice is chosen by the President, approved by the Senate

WHITE HOUSE

WHITE HOUSE TOUR

SMITHSONIAN

James Smithson was an Englishman dedicated to learning.

The Smithsonian Institute founded in 1829 with the Castle.

Today there are many Museums to see.

Smithsonian museumsMALL MAP

The National Shrine Of

THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

VIETNAM MEMORIAL

Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a wall shaped like a “V.”

55,000 Americans, who were killed in Vietnam, have their names engraved on the wall.

IWOA JIMA

Marine Corps War Memorial

Raising of the Flag on Mount Suribachi during W.W. II.

Battle won in1945. 5 Marines and a Navy

hospital corpsman raised the U.S. flag.