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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to its east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories, or insular areas, in the Caribbean and Pacific. At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with about 306 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and third largest by land area and by population. The United States is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the largest national economy in the world, with an estimated 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) of US $14.3 trillion (23% of the world total based on nominal GDP and almost 21% at purchasing power parity). The nation was founded by thirteen colonies of Great Britain located along the Atlantic seaboard. On July 4, 1776, they issued the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed their independence from Great Britain and their formation of a cooperative union. The rebellious states defeated Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, the first successful colonial war of independence. The Philadelphia Convention adopted the current United States Constitution on September 17, 1787; its ratification the following year made the states part of a single republic with a strong central government. The Bill of Rights, comprising ten constitutional amendments guaranteeing many fundamental civil rights and freedoms, was ratified in 1791. In the 19th century, the United States acquired land from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Russia, and annexed the Republic of Texas and the Republic of Hawaii. Disputes between the agrarian South and industrial North over states' rights and the expansion of the institution of slavery provoked the American Civil War of the 1860s. The North's victory prevented a permanent split of the country and led to the end of legal slavery in the United States. By the 1870s, the national economy was the world's largest. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the country's status as a military power. In 1945, the United States emerged from World War II as the first country with nuclear weapons, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and a founding member of NATO. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union left the United States as the sole superpower. The country accounts for approximately 50% of global military spending and is a leading economic, political, and cultural force in the world. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License Can You State Reasons on How The United States is Ascending? Q. For a short paragraph 50 words or less i need to choose if the the United States is ascending or declining. I chose that the United states is ascending due to technology, education, and healthcare. Can you tell me anymore ways the united states is ascending? lol i can't call him. we were going over it in class. for decline the class came up with trade, global warming, war, economice collapse, biological war, and oil collapse. those are like how we can decline. For ascendancy we came up with technology, personal freedom, awarness or finding solutions to problems that may cause decline, education, advances in medical fileds, i just need more example i think? Asked by kate - Wed Sep 26 18:46:49 2007 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments A. I wouldn't say that. United state is declining. United states ranked low in education. United states has one of the higher high school drop out rate. Students do poor in Math and in English. Most of the high paid jobs are held by foreign students. Computer companies have more foreign people employed than Americans. Technology wise, Japan and Europe, and even China and India are ahead of us. Answered by Yeaiamhere - Wed Sep 26 18:51:23 2007 Is the southwestern United States more anglophone, hispanophone, or mostly bilingual? Q. 1. Which language is more commonly spoken by the population? 2. Which language is more commonly used in public schools as the language of instruction? 3. Which language is more commonly used to conduct business? 4. Do you believe that in the future the southwest will be more anglophone, hispanophone, or a pretty evenly bilingual region? 5. Do you believe that the United States will become an officially bilingual nation like its northern neighbor, with English being dominant overall but the southwest becoming to the United States what Quebec is to Canada? Asked by Seth D - Thu Jun 4 22:10:47 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments A. 1. English 2. English 3. English 4. Legally anglophone, but given the demographics, more like bilingual 5. No, there are too many nay sayers. Answered by Rejji - Thu Jun 4 22:26:07 2009 Why did the united states support the nationalist party rather than the communist party during the civil war?
Q. Why did the united states support the nationalist party rather than the Communist party during the civil war in China? I'm not quite sure thank you in advance! Asked by Molly O - Fri Nov 14 23:59:23 2008 - - 5 Answers - 0 Comments A. The US saw China as a potential extension of Communist Russia, and thus a Communist China would be a factor in the Cold War. Also, the prevailing American concept of restricting Communism was military 'containment' - that is, surrounding Russia with states that would be hostile to the spread of Communism. A Communist China would interfere with this containment policy. Answered by Naz F - Sat Nov 15 00:06:33 2008 From Yahoo Answer Search: "United States"
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