They literally never came up when I was at school. Contemporary America only featured in a couple of geography lessons about 'superpowers' that featured textbooks that were already dated by the late 1990s (c.f. not so much the whole Soviet business, but the idea as Japan as a rising future superpower, etc).
I would think there was a map of the US labelled with states (not sure if all, certainly all the seceding ones though) in a history textbook, in a chapter on the US Civil War. But the only time there ever was anything approaching "learn the geographical names of somewhere" block in geography class, it was about German rivers and mountains. Maybe cities as well, I don't remember.
