1. Presentation created by Mrs. Batti

3. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue home of the President of the United States and family THE WHITE HOUSE

4. site of the United States Congress located in Washington D.C. on top of Capitol Hill The building is marked by its central dome and two wings, one for each chamber of Congress: the north wing is the Senate chamber and the south wing is the House of Representatives chamber. Above these chambers are galleries where people can watch the Senate and House of Representatives.

5. highest judicial body in the United States leads the judicial branch of the United States federal government

6. The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense in Arlington, Virginia.

7. memorial honoring George Washington large, white-colored obelisk made of marble and sandstone completed in 1884 WASHINGTONMONUMENT

8. LINCOLN MEMORIAL U. S. presidential memorial built to honor President Abraham Lincoln in the form of a Greek Doric temple contains a large seated sculpture of Abraham Lincoln and inscriptions of two well-known speeches by Lincoln

9. THOMAS JEFFERSON MEMORIAL dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, an American Founding Father and the third president of the United States contains a bronze statue of Jefferson and engravings with passages from Jefferson’s writings

10. educational and research institute and museum SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE AND MUSEUM over 142 million items in its collections

11. holds the original copies of the three main documents of the United States ~the Declaration of Independence ~the Constitution ~the Bill of Rights opened in 1935 NATIONAL ARCHIVES BUILDING

12. one of the largest and most important libraries in the world collections include more than 29 million books head of the Library is the Librarian of Congress

13. longtime home of George Washington located in Alexandria, Virginia 2-1/2 story frame Georgian house faces the Potomac River Washington returned to Mount Vernon after his term as President Washington lived here in retirement until his death MOUNT VERNON

14. national memorial to Americans who served and died in World War II WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL Memorial at dusk located at Arlington National Cemetery memorial is dedicated to all marines who have died in the defense of their country since 1775 MARINE CORPS WWII MEMORIAL IWO JIMA

15. a short distance away from the wall is another part of the memorial, a bronze statue named The Three Soldiers when a visitor looks upon the wall, his reflection can be seen with the engraved names of those who died in the war, which is meant to symbolically bring the past and present together

16. The Tomb of the Unknowns (also known as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier) is a monument in Arlington National Cemetery dedicated to the American soldiers who have died without their remains being identified. Veterans from all the nation's wars are interred in the cemetery, from the American Revolution through the military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq.