United States of America (Vote Socialist)

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country comprising 49 states, a federal district, and one self-governing territory. At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2), the United States is the world's third or fourth largest country by total area[d]  and is slightly smaller than the entire continent of Europe, which is 3.9 million square miles (10.1 million km2). With a population of over 327 million people, the U.S. is the third most populous country. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the most populous city is New York City. Most of the country is located contiguously in North America between Canada and Mexico.

Paleo-Indians migrated from Siberia to the North American mainland at least 12,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century. The United States emerged from the thirteen British colonies established along the East Coast. Following the French and Indian War, numerous disputes between Great Britain and the colonies led to the American Revolution, which began in 1775, and the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The war ended in 1783 with the United States becoming the first country to gain independence from a colonial empire. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, with the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, being ratified in 1791 to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. The United States embarked on a vigorous expansion across North America throughout the 19th century, acquiring new territories,   displacing Native American tribes, and gradually admitting new states until it spanned the continent by 1848.

During the second half of the 19th century, the Civil War led to the abolition of slavery. By the end of the century, the United States had reached the Pacific Ocean,[25]  and its economy, driven in large part by the Industrial Revolution, began to soar. This led to what would be known as the Gilded Age, a thin coat of gold paint over deep societal problems. The political system was only democratic in name, with large political machines like Tammany Hall in New York City. These conditions eventually gave rise to a wave of resentment from the working classes who suffered under the system of political patronage. In the cities, the workers organized into labor unions like the Knights of Labor, Central Labor Union, and the more radical Western Federation of Miners (which would later form the nucleus of the International Workers of the World); in the country, the farmer's alliance coelesced in the mid west to oppose the exploitative practices of the big landowners and their politician friends. The labor movements would soon form political parties, and these parties would score victories in local elections. In 1886, Henry George of the Union Labor Party would be elected mayor of New York City, capturing the heart of the democratic party political machine. These groups would finally ally with each other to form the Socialist Party of America based on the ideals of socialism and shaped by the ideas of Karl Marx, Henry George, Daniel De Leon, and Edward Bellamy. The meteoric rise of the SPA would shift America's politics sharply to the left and would eventually lead to a radical restructuring of the American government in 1920 with the ascension of president William Z Foster and the new socialist constitution. Throughout the 20th century, America and the socialist powers would fight against the reactionary powers of Britain, Japan, and the German Empire in the Russian Civil War and World War II.