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The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed. After European colonization of North America began in the late 15th century, wars and epidemics decimated indigenous societies. Starting in 1585, the British Empire colonized ...
Buenos Aires. The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, [ 5 ][ 6 ][ 7 ] known initially as India Nova, [ 8 ] are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America. [ 8 ][ 9 ][ 10 ] The Americas make up most of the land in Earth 's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World.
In a car-dependent America, there is a common dislike of car dealerships and car salesmen, with only 10 percent of U.S. citizens in a Gallup poll rating them highly honest. [259] Matilda by Roald Dahl gives an example of this stereotype: Matilda's father sells used cars by filling their engines with sawdust or reversing their odometers with a ...
Currently, the CIA World Factbook gives 9,826,675 km 2 (3,794,100 sq mi), [ 7 ] the United Nations Statistics Division gives 9,629,091 km 2 (3,717,813 sq mi), [ 8 ] and the Encyclopedia Britannica gives 9,522,055 km 2 (3,676,486 sq mi) (Great Lakes area included but not coastal waters). [ 9 ] These sources consider only the 50 states and the ...
A map of North America's physical, political, and population characteristics as of 2018. North America is a continent [b] in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. [c] North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean.
t. e. In the United States, politics functions within a framework of a constitutional federal republic. The three distinct branches share powers: the U.S. Congress which forms the legislative branch, a bicameral legislative body comprising the House of Representatives and the Senate; the executive branch, which is headed by the president of the ...
t. e. The history of the United States from 2008 to the presentbegan with the collapse of the housing bubble, which led to the Great Recession. The resulting economic downturn and general discontent led Barack Obamato win the presidential election in 2008, becoming the country's first African-Americanpresident.