D.C GUIDEBOOK

FDR Memorial

• FDR was born in 1882
• He is elected NY State Senate in 1910
• FDR established a polio treatment center In 1926
• He is elected Governor of New York In 1928
• FDR is elected U.S. president in 1932

FDR Memorial
A quote FDR wrote is "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself". I think this quote means if you don't have anything to be afraid of then you won't be afraid. The significance of the four rooms is that each one represents one term of which FDR was elected president of the U.S.

VIETNAM WALL

• The Vietnam Wall has 58,256 names on it.
• I think the reflective quality was chosen so that you can respect them and put yourself in their shoes.
• The statue was later added to the memorial because it represented the healing of the losses and and the nation.

CAPITOL

• The Capitol is the meeting place of the U. S. Congress and the legislature of the U. S. Federal Government.
• A piece of art I found is called the Declaration of Independence. It is important because it depicts the moment the Declaration was signed.
• The Senate was established in 1787. The House of Reps. was established in 1789. The Special Powers is a system of checks and balances.

ARLINGTON CEMETERY

• Three famous people that were buried in the cemetery are John F. Kennedy, Grace Hopper, and Robert Todd Lincoln.
• The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is where an unidentified soldier that fought for America in WWI is buried.
• Another memorial in he cemetery is the Nurses Memorial. It honors the nurses that served in WWI.

LINCOLN MEMORIAL

• In 1861 the Battle of Bull Run took place.
• In 1862 Lincoln's son,William, died.
• In 1863 he he issued he Emancipation Proclamation.
• In 1863 he named Ulysses S. Grant as Union General.
• In 1865 he gave his second Inaugural Address.

LINCOLN MEMORIAL

• The Gettysburg Address is important because it taught Americans human equality.
• The epitaph on the Lincoln Memorial means Lincoln changed the nation by teaching Americans that the color of your skin doesn't matter to whom you are.

WASHINGTON MONUMENT

• The Washington Monument's height is significant because no other building in D. C. is allowed to be taller.
• An obelisk is a stone pillar typically having a square or rectangular cross section and a pyramidal top set up as a landmark or monument.

WASHINGTON MONUMENT

• Washington was commander in chief during the Revolutionary War in 1775-1783.
• In 1787 Washington presides at constitutional convention in Philadelphia.
• Washington accepts his election to the presidency in 1789.
• In 1793 Washington is re-elected to presidency.
• Washington signs treaty of San Lorenzo in 1795.

JEFFERSON MEMORIAL
Excerpts from the Declaration of Independence are included in the Jefferson Memorial because Jefferson believed very mightily in what the Declaration of Independence stated. The material for the statue could not be bronze because of rations but they later took down that statue and added a bronze one.

JEFFERSON MEMORIAL

• In 1743 Jefferson was born.
• In 1803 Jefferson oversaw the Louisiana Purchase.
• On July 4, 1826, Jefferson died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL
The cartoon drawing on the memorial is called Kilroy. It is a cartoon drawing of a man looking over a wall, that was a popular piece of graffiti drawn by American troops. The cartoon's significance was that it came to be a sign that the American soldiers had gone through that area.

WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL
The message on the Freedom Wall, "Here we mark the price of freedom" means that in order to gain freedom to pay was all the soldiers that died and that the memorial is marking their importance. Another thing on the Freedom Wall is the 4048 gold stars. Each one represents one hundred soldiers that died in WWII.

THE KOREAN MEMORIAL
The phrase "Freedom is not free" means the right to be free comes with a cost and people die fighting for it. The purpose of the 19 statues is to tell that race and ethnicity don't tell the person you are. The Mural Wall is a 164 foot wall that consists of approximately 2400 images depicting the the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Gaurd, and Air Force.

ARCHIVES

• The Constitution is important because it gives American Citizens rights and freedom.
• The Declaration of Independence is important because it is a symbol of liberty.
• The Bill of Rights is important because it spells out the immunities of individual citizens.
• We need to keep record of our nation's history because they help us claim our rights and entitlements.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

• It is the largest library in the world.
• It is the oldest Federal cultural institute in the nation.
• Approximately half of the library's books and serial collections are in languages other than English.
• The Library of Congress has over 158 million items in the library.
• The Library of Congress contains approximately 100 extremely rare children books.

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
The Library of Congress has an extensive rare books collection one of these includes the rare children's books collection. The purpose of the U.S. Copyright Office is to administersthe national copyright system and provides advice on copyright law to Congress, Federal Agencies, the courts, and the public.

SUPREME COURT

• One current Supreme Court justice is Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She was born in 1933.
• The Supreme Court got it's building in 1935. It was previously in the Capitol.
• The Supreme Court is different from other courts because it is the final court that you go to for trial.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MEMORIAL
The theme of hope is represented in the sculpture of the memorial because when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his I Have A Dream speech he made it clear that he wanted to give African Americans freedom and he was their symbol of freedom. So his sculpture represents that the hope will live on.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MEMORIAL
The significance of the street address is that in 1964 was the year that Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize. The quote "Out of a mountain of despair, a stone of hope" means that segregation is the mountain of despair and the stone of hope is the people trying to get civil rights for African Americans.