55.What minerals can be found in the usa?

With major producing fields in Alaska, California, the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, and Oklahoma, the United States is one of the world’s leading producers of refined petroleum and has important reserves of natural gas. It is also among the world’s coal exporters. Recoverable coal deposits are concentrated largely in the Appalachian Mountains and in Wyoming. Nearly half the bituminous coal is mined in West Virginia and Kentucky, while Pennsylvania produces the country’s only anthracite. Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio also produce coal.

56. What minerals is Alaska rich in?

Alaska's public lands are abundant in mineral resources from Au (gold) to Zn (zinc). It was gold that first focused world attention on Alaska. After the California gold rush in 1848, prospectors began working north along the Rocky Mountains, eventually reaching Alaska. They found gold near Sitka in 1872 and at the present site of Juneau in 1880 – sixteen years before the famous Klondike strike!  The rush was on. From Juneau they spread out into Interior Alaska, making discoveries in the Fortymile County (1886), in the White Mountains near Fairbanks (1893), in the Canadian Klondike (1896), in Nome (1898), and inIditarod (1908). Gold mining is still important in Alaska. To date, more than 32 million ounces of it have been mined. At today’s prices, that much gold would have been worth $12.5 billion, making it Alaska’s most valuable non-energy commodity, according to statistics compiled by the State of Alaska.

57. What are the major two types of schools in the USA? There are two major types of school in America.There are : public and private schools. Public schools get their financing from local, state, and federal government funds. In most cases, they must admit all students who live within the borders of their district. Charter schools and magnet schools are two relatively new kinds of public schools. Private schools rely on tuition payments and funds from nonpublic sources such as religious organizations, endowments, grants, and charitable donations.These schools select from a pool of students who apply for admission. They may be coed or single sex. About a third of the elementary and secondary schools in the United States are private 58. Is there National Curriculum in the USA?

The move towards Common Core State Standards and the two consortia developing assessments have led some to advocate for a common core or national curriculum, as called for by the Albert Shanker Institute in A Call for Common Content: Core Curriculum Must Build A Bridge From Standards to Achievement. A national curriculum would further erode local control and raises other serious issues as indicated in Closing the Door on Innovation: Why One National Curriculum is Bad for America. Closing the Door on Innovation is A Critical Response to the Shanker Institute Manifesto and the U.S. Department of Education’s Initiative to Develop a National Curriculum and National Assessments Based on National Standards. This response includes the following concerns: No constitutional or statutory basis for national standards, national assessments, or national curricula.

No consistent evidence indicates that a national curriculum leads to high academic achievement.

Developed national standards are inadequate for basing a national curriculum as planned by the administration.

No body of evidence recommends a “best” design for curriculum sequences in any subject.

No body of evidence justifies a single high school curriculum for all students. 59. What holidays are uniquely American? Part of what makes Thanksgiving so special is that it’s a uniquely American holiday. The history of Thanksgiving dates to the early 1600s and the Berkley Plantation where the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1619, twelve years after the founding of the Virginia colony at Jamestown.

60. What is the structure of the US Constitution? The United States Constitution is actually very short. The purpose of the constitution is NOT to create laws, but to provide a framework for the government. It was also kept short and vague on purpose. This document is a living document, which can be changed, or amended, based on the needs of the people throughout time. 61. What is the Bill of Rights? A bill of rights, sometimes called a declaration of rights or a charter of rights, is a list of the most important rights to the citizens of a country. The purpose is to protect those rights against infringement from public officials and private citizens. The term "bill of rights" originates from England, where it refers to the Bill of Rights 1689 enacted by Parliament following the Glorious Revolution, asserting the supremacy of Parliament over the monarch, and listing a number of fundamental rights and liberties.Bills of rights may be entrenched or unentrenched. An entrenched bill of rights cannot be modified or repealed by a country's legislature through normal procedure, instead requiring a supermajority or referendum; often it is part of a country's constitution and therefore subject to special procedures applicable to constitutional amendments. A not entrenched bill of rights is a normal statute law and as such can be modified or repealed by the legislature at will.In practice, not every jurisdiction enforces the protection of the rights articulated in its bill of rights. 62. What are the basic principles of the Constitution in the USA? The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. Proposed to assuage the fears of Anti-Federalists who had opposed Constitutional ratification, these amendments 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. Originally the amendments applied only to the federal government, however, most were subsequently applied to the government of each state by way of the Fourteenth Amendment, through a process known as incorporation. On June 8, 1789 Representative James Madison introduced a series of thirty-nine amendments to the constitution in the House of Representatives. Among his recommendations Madison proposed opening up the Constitution and inserting specific rights limiting the power of Congress in Article One, Section 9. Seven of these limitations would became part of the ten ratified Bill of Rights amendments. Ultimately, on September 25, 1789, Congress approved twelve articles of amendment to the Constitution and submitted them to the states for ratification. Contrary to Madison’s original proposal that the articles be incorporated into the main body of the Constitution, they were proposed as "supplemental" additions to it. On December 15, 1791, Articles Three–Twelve, having been ratified by the required number of states, became Amendments One–Ten of the Constitution.Popular Sovereignty All power comes from the people. Limited Government Government may do only the things that the people give it power to do. Separation of Powers Basic powers of the state are distributed among independent branches of government. Checks and Balances Each branch of government can be checked by the other branches. Judicial Review Power of the courts to determine if a law/government action is constitutional. Federalism Division of power among a central and local governments.