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The United States is a nation in North America. Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. The two most traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the Civil War (1861-65), in which a northern Union of states defeated a secessionist Confederacy of 11 southern slave states, and the Great Depression of the 1930s, an economic downturn during which about a quarter of the labor force lost its jobs. Buoyed by victories in World Wars I and II and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the US remains the world's most powerful nation state. Over a span of more than five decades, the economy has achieved steady growth, low unemployment and inflation, and rapid advances in technology.[1]
American Polities
- United States of America: Thirteen States (1776-1789)
- United States of America (From 1960)
- Confederate States of America (1861-1865)
- Washington, D.C. (From 1790)
- Navajo Nation (From 1868)
- United States Naval Base Guantanamo Bay (From 1903)
- The United Alaskan America (1959-1960)
U.S. States
- Alabama (From 1819)
- Alaska (From 1959)
- Arizona (From 1912)
- Arkansas (From 1836)
- California (From 1850)
- Colorado (From 1876)
- Connecticut (From 1788)
- Delaware (From 1787)
- Florida (From 1845)
- Georgia (From 1788)
- Hawaii (From 1959)
- Idaho (From 1890)
- Illinois (From 1818)
- Indiana (From 1816)
- Iowa (From 1846)
- Kansas (From 1861)
- Kentucky (From 1792)
- Louisiana (From 1812)
- Maine (From 1820)
- Maryland (From 1788)
- Massachusetts (From 1788)
- Michigan (From 1837)
- Minnesota (From 1858)
- Mississippi (From 1817)
- Missouri (From 1821)
- Montana (From 1889)
- Nebraska (From 1867)
- Nevada (From 1864)
- New Hampshire (From 1788)
- New Jersey (From 1787)
- New Mexico (From 1912)
- New York (From 1788)
- North Carolina (From 1789)
- North Dakota (From 1889)
- Ohio (From 1803)
- Oklahoma (From 1907)
- Oregon (From 1859)
- Pennsylvania (From 1787)
- Rhode Island (From 1790)
- South Carolina (From 1788)
- South Dakota (From 1889)
- Tennessee (From 1796)
- Texas (From 1845)
- Utah (From 1896)
- Vermont (From 1791)
- Virginia (From 1788)
- Washington (From 1889)
- West Virginia (From 1863)
- Wisconsin (From 1848)
- Wyoming (From 1890)
United States Unincorporated Territories
- Guam (From 1898)
- Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (From 1978)
- Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (From 1952)
- United States Virgin Islands (From 1917)
- Panama Canal Zone (1903-1979)
- American Samoa (From 1899)
United States Domestic Dependent Nations
- Navajo Nation (From 1868)
- Hopi Reservation
Neighbouring Nations
See also
- Compact of Free Association (Associated states)
References
- ↑ The CIA World Factbook
- The World Factbook (CIA)
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments (CIA)
- The Avalon Project: Chronology of American History
- World Statesmen.org