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The United States of America, or USA, U.S.A, US, or just the States, is the third largest country via population and third largest via land area.

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 The '''United States of America''', or USA, U.S.A, US, or just the States, is the third largest country via population and third largest via land area.
-==Early settlement==
-After Columbus discovery of South America many where inspired to brutally rape all the natives. First the Spanish discovered Florida, and while there, raping a woman was sort of a right of passage from having a micropenis to having a big dick to fuck the rest of their lives. Many insults, such as assholeface and retard were invented during this time. If someone was gay, people would call him a "mason", which is still used today. There were also many French attempts to colonize North America but the first English successes (and probably the most important regarding USA s history) was the colonial settlement: Jamestown (in the state that would later be named Virginia) many of the first colonial immigrants were Catholics/protestants/etc who were seeking freedom of faith.
-With the colonization of Georgia in 1732, the 13 colonies that would become the United States of America were established. All had local governments with elections open to most free men, with a growing devotion to the ancient rights of Englishmen and a sense of self-government stimulating support for republicanism. With extremely high birth rates, low death rates, and steady settlement, the colonial population grew rapidly. Relatively small Native American populations were eclipsed.
-==<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;">Independence</span>==
-The American Revolution was the first colonial war to succeed.
-By the late 18th century <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;">Americans had developed an ideology of </span>''republicanism''<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> that held government rested on the will of the people as expressed in their local legislatures. And when the British Empire started to see how deep in debt they were they decided to tax the American englishmen, a big mistake, to do so they imposed a series of taxes that the americans did not accept stating that the parliment did not have the right to tax them withput representation (Hence the Revolutionary lema "No taxation without representation").</span>
-<span style="line-height:22.399999618530273px;">As tension rised following the Boston "Tea Party" and several other boycotts to British trade the first Continental Congress(</span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> a convention of delegates called together from the </span>Thirteen Colonies<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> that became the governing body of the </span>United States<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> during the </span>American Revolution<span style="line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">) that</span>
-From 1803 to 1848, the size of the new nation nearly tripled as settlers (many embracing the concept of pushed beyond national boundaries even before the [[Louisiana Purchase]]. The expansion was tempered somewhat by the stalemate in the [[War of 1812]], but was subsequently reinvigorated by victory in the [[Mexican-American War|Mexican–American War]] in 1848.
-[[File:USA_Flag.jpg|thumb|This is the present day American flag]]
-As new territories were being incorporated, the nation was divided over the issue of [[states' rights]], the role of the federal government, and, by the 1820s, the expansion of slavery. The [[Union (American Civil War)|Northern states]] were opposed to the expansion of slavery whereas the [[Southern United States|Southern states]] saw the opposition as an attack on their way of life, since their economy was dependent on [[History of slavery in the United States|slave labor]]. The failure to permanently resolve these issues led to the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], following the secession of many [[slave state]]s in the South to form the [[Confederate States of America]] after the [[United States presidential election, 1860|1860 election]] of [[Abraham Lincoln]]. The 1865 [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] victory in the Civil War effectively ended slavery and settled the question of whether a state had the right to secede. The event was a major turning point in American history, with an increase in federal power.
-After the Civil War, an unprecedented influx of [[Immigration to the United States|immigrants]], who helped to provide labor for American industry and create diverse communities in [[American Old West|undeveloped areas]], together with high tariff protections, national infrastructure building, and national banking regulations, hastened the country's rise to international power. The growing power of the United States enabled it to acquire new territories, including the annexation of [[Puerto Rico]] after victory in the [[Spanish-American War|Spanish–American War]], which marked the debut of the United States as a [[Great power|major world power]].
-At the start of the [[First World War]], in 1914, the United States remained neutral. In 1917, however, the United States joined the [[Triple Entente|Allied Powers]], helping to turn the tide against the [[Central Powers]]. For historical reasons, American sympathies were very much in favor of the British and French, even though a sizable number of citizens, mostly Irish and German, were opposed to intervention. After the war, the Senate did not ratify the [[Treaty of Versailles]], because of a fear that it would pull the United States into European affairs. Instead, the country pursued a policy of [[unilateralism]] that bordered at times on [[isolationism]].
-During [[Roaring Twenties|most of the 1920s]], the United States enjoyed a period of unbalanced prosperity as farm prices fell and industrial profits grew. A rise in debt and an inflated [[stock market]] culminated in a [[Stock market crash|crash]] in 1929, triggering the [[Great Depression]]. After his election as President in 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted his plan for a [[New Deal]], which increased government intervention in the economy in response to the Great Depression.
-The nation did not fully recover until 1941, when the United States was driven to join the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] against the [[Axis Powers]] after a surprise [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] by the Japanese. [[World War II]] was the costliest war in American history, but helped to pull the economy out of depression as the required production of military [[materiel]] provided much-needed jobs and women entered the workforce in large numbers for the first time.
-After World War II, the United States and the [[Soviet Union]] became superpowers in an era of ideological rivalry dubbed the [[Cold War]]. The United States promoted [[liberal democracy]] and [[capitalism]], while the Soviet Union [[communism]] and a centrally [[planned economy]]. The result was a series of [[proxy war]]s, including the [[Korean War]], the [[Vietnam War]], the tense nuclear showdown of the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]], and the [[Soviet war in Afghanistan]].
-The perception that the United States was losing the [[space race]] spurred government efforts to raise proficiency in mathematics and science in schools and led to [[John F. Kennedy|President Kennedy]]'s call for the United States to land "a man on the [[moon]]" by the end of the 1960s, which was realized in 1969.
-Meanwhile, American society experienced a period of sustained economic expansion. At the same time, discrimination across the United States, especially in the [[Southern states|South]], was increasingly challenged by a growing [[American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)|civil-rights movement]] headed by prominent African Americans such as [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], which led to the abolition of the [[Jim Crow laws]] in the South.
-After the [[History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991)|fall of the Soviet Union]] in 1991, the United States continued to intervene militarily overseas, for example in the [[Gulf War]].
-Following the [[September 11, 2001 Attacks]], U.S. foreign policy focused on the threat of [[terrorist]] attacks. In response, the government under [[George W. Bush]] began a series of military and legal operations termed the [[War on Terror]], beginning with the overthrow of Afghanistan's [[Taliban]] government in October 2001. Soon after, the United States launched the controversial [[2003 invasion of Iraq]], with support from 30 governments, which George W. Bush referred to as the '[[Coalition of the Willing]]'. Although the Bush administration justified its invasion with a charge that Iraq had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction, no such stockpile was found, and the Bush administration later admitted having acted on flawed intelligence.
-==Politics and Government==
-The United States has the oldest living Federation government to date, at 239 years old.
-==Finances and Economics==
-==Armed Forces==
-==='''Ground-force (Army/Military)'''===
-==='''Naval-force'''===
-==='''Air-force'''===
-==='''Space-force'''===
-==Culture and Society==
-==Religion==
-==Sciences and Technologies==
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-==Also see==
-[[States]] (1787- present)
-[[Cities]] (1787- present)
-[[Churches]] (1787- present)
-[[United States of America]] (1787- present)
-[[Category:USA]]