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  1. In what city is Berkeley University situated? Is it a public or private university?

The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a public, coeducational university situated in Berkeley, California, United States, to the east of San Francisco Bay. 

  1. In what city is Columbia University situated?

 Columbia University, is an American private Ivy League research university located in Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. 

Today the university operates seven Columbia Global Centers overseas in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris, Mumbai, Santiago and Nairobi. Situated in Manhattan, New York, Columbia University often ranks amongst the best 10 universities in the United States of America. Columbia University is the first American University to provide the MD degree in the year 1767.

  1. In what part of the country are the Appalachian Mountains situated? The Rocky Mountains?

The Appalachian Mountains, often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern North America. The range is mostly located in the United States but extends into southeastern Canada, forming a zone from 100 to 300 mi south-westward to Central Alabama in the United States. The system is divided into a series of ranges, with the individual mountains averaging around 910 m. The highest of the group is Mount Mitchell in North Carolina. the term is often used more restrictively to refer to regions in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains, usually including areas in the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and North Carolina, as well as sometimes extending as far south as northern Georgia and western South Carolina, as far north as Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

The Rocky Mountains (or the Rockies) are a major mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 3,000 miles (4,830 km) from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern United States. Within the North American Cordillera, the Rockies are somewhat distinct from the Pacific Coast Ranges and the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada which all lie further to the west.

  1. What are the six states of New England? (V., R.I., M., N.H., M., C.).

New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. New England is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Canada (the Canadian Maritimes and Quebec) and the state of New York.

  1. Could you name some Indian tribes?

- Navajo

- Cherokee

- Sioux

- Chippewa

- Choctaw

- Apache

- Pueblo

- Iroquois

- Creek

-Blackfeet

  1. In what state is Washington situated?

Washington is situated in the District of Columbia.

  1. How many are the stripes on the American flag?

The American flag, consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white.

The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 states of the United States of America and the 13 stripes represent the thirteen British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and became the first states in the Union.

  1. What is the Bill of Rights? When was it adopted?

The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. These limitations serve to protect the natural rights of liberty and property. They guarantee a number of personal freedoms, limit the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and reserve some powers to the states and the public. While originally the amendments applied only to the federal government, most of their provisions have since been held to apply to the states by way of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The amendments were introduced by James Madison to the 1st United States Congress as a series of legislative articles. They were adopted by the House of Representatives on August 21, 1789,[1][2] formally proposed by joint resolution of Congress on September 25, 1789, and came into effect as Constitutional Amendments on December 15, 1791, through the process of ratification by three-fourths of the States. While twelve amendments were passed by Congress, only ten were originally passed by the states. Of the remaining two, one was adopted as the Twenty-seventh Amendment and the other technically remains pending before the states.

The Bill of Rights plays a key role in American law and government, and remains a vital symbol of the freedoms and culture of the nation.