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UNITED STATES - The biggest part of the United States is located in the central region of North America, and it has land frontiers with Canada and Mexico. The country is washed by the Pacific Ocean,Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean. Among the 50 American States, only Alaska and Hawaii are not contiguous with the other 48 States. The United States also has severalterritories, districts and other possessions around the world, mainly in the Caribbean and in the Pacific Ocean.
The current United States of America originated from the Thirteen Colonies established byGreat Britain on the Atlantic coast of North America, in the seventeenth century. The American Revolution of 1776 was a war for independence against the colonizers carried out by the leading classof the colonists. In 1789, the country adopted a constitution and became a Federal Republic. Since the recognition of its independence by the United Kingdom, in 1783, new territories and states weresuccessively incorporated, expanding the frontiers of the country in the western direction, up to the Pacific Ocean. The expansion of American frontiers had as its most serious consequence theannihilation of great part of indigenous peoples.
Since the colonial period, the United States has faced with the lack of labor force. In that period, the social economic differences in the country wereenormous, with an industrialized north opposed to an agrarian south. The lack of labor force encouraged European immigration to the north. In the south, however, landowners used slave labor force,brought from the African continent.
This difference was one among several reasons which led to the American Civil War - between 1861 and 1865. In this war, the number of deaths was higher than thesum of the deaths that occurred in all the other wars in which the United States were involved, from the independence until the recent war against Iraq.
The United States was never a colonial...
The current United States of America originated from the Thirteen Colonies established byGreat Britain on the Atlantic coast of North America, in the seventeenth century. The American Revolution of 1776 was a war for independence against the colonizers carried out by the leading classof the colonists. In 1789, the country adopted a constitution and became a Federal Republic. Since the recognition of its independence by the United Kingdom, in 1783, new territories and states weresuccessively incorporated, expanding the frontiers of the country in the western direction, up to the Pacific Ocean. The expansion of American frontiers had as its most serious consequence theannihilation of great part of indigenous peoples.
Since the colonial period, the United States has faced with the lack of labor force. In that period, the social economic differences in the country wereenormous, with an industrialized north opposed to an agrarian south. The lack of labor force encouraged European immigration to the north. In the south, however, landowners used slave labor force,brought from the African continent.
This difference was one among several reasons which led to the American Civil War - between 1861 and 1865. In this war, the number of deaths was higher than thesum of the deaths that occurred in all the other wars in which the United States were involved, from the independence until the recent war against Iraq.
The United States was never a colonial...
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