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United States of America
Timeline: Springtime of Nations
OTL equivalent: Northern United States, parts of Canada, Bahamas, Jamaica Belize, Okinawa, and the Panama Canal Zone
United States of AmericaTimeline: Springtime of Nations ; OTL equivalent: Northern United States, parts of Canada, Bahamas, Jamaica Belize, Okinawa, and the Panama Canal Zone
	Motto: ; E pluribus unum (Latin) "Out of many, one"
	Anthem: ; "America the Beautiful" https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/File:America_the_Beautiful_(male_vocalist)_-_United_States_Navy_Band.ogg;
Capital	District of Columbia
Official languages	None at the federal level
National language	English
Ethnic groups	59.3% White; 17.7% Native American; 9.1% Black; 5.9% Asian; 4.1% multiracial; 3.1% Latino; 0.2% Pacific Islander; 0.5%;
Religion	63% Christianity 31% Protestantism; 30% Catholicism; 2% other Christian; ; 29% no religion; 1% Buddhism; 1% Hinduism; 1% Islam; 1% Judaism; 2% other; 2% unanswered;
Demonym(s)	American
Government	Federal presidential constitutional republic
Legislature	Congress
Establishment
Area
Population
GDP (PPP)	2023 estimate
GDP (nominal)	2023 estimate
Gini (2020)	39.9
HDI (2021)	0.929
Currency	U.S. dollar ($) (USD)
Time zone	(UTC−4 to −12, +10, +11)
Date formats	mm/dd/yyyy
Drives on the	Right
Internet TLD	.com, .us
Calling code	+1

The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 49 states, an Autonomous State, a federal district, four major unincorporated territories, eight Minor Outlying Islands, and 294 Indian reservations. The United States is the world's second-largest country by both land and total area, at 5,563,236 sq mi ( or 14,408,716 km²). It shares land borders with Canada to its east and with Mexico, the CSA, and Guatamala, to its south, it also shares a border with Panama, due to the Panama Canal Zone. It has maritime borders with Haiti, Denmark and the Soviet Union, and other nations. With a population of over 245 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the fourth most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is the District of Columbia, and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City.

Indigenous peoples have inhabited the Americas for thousands of years. Beginning in 1607, British colonization led to the establishment of the Thirteen Colonies in what is now the Eastern United States. They quarreled with the British Crown over taxation and political representation, leading to the American Revolution and proceeding Revolutionary War. The United States declared independence on July 4, 1776, becoming the first nation-state founded on Enlightenment principles of unalienable natural rights, consent of the governed, and liberal democracy. During the nineteenth century, the United States political philosophy was informed by the concept of manifest destiny, as the country expanded across the continent in a number of wars, land purchases, and treaties, eventually reaching the Pacific Ocean by the middle of the century. After clashes with the U.K., near Vancouver island, the Pig War began between the two nations. After Abraham Lincoln's victory in the 1860 election, and issues surrounding slavery, the Confederate States of America was created. Fighting a two sided war, the Union surrendered, causing the creation of the National Union Party.

By 1900, the United States had established itself as a world power, becoming the world's largest economy. After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. entered the Second World War on the Allied side, causing the US, to be the nuked by the first atomic superweapons, leading them to leave the war in Europe. The aftermath of the war left the United States and France as the world's two superpowers and led to the First Cold War. During the First Cold War, both countries engaged in a struggle for ideological dominance but avoided direct military conflict. They also competed in the Space Race, which culminated in the 1968 landing of Apollo 8, making the U.S. the first and only nation to ever land humans on the Moon. With the France's collapse and the subsequent end of the First Cold War in the 1990s, the USSR emerged as the next superpower, beginning the Second Cold War.

The United States government is a federal republic and a representative democracy with three separate branches of government. It has a bicameral national legislature composed of the House of Representatives, a lower house; and the Senate, an upper house based on equal representation for each state.

The United States is the world's largest importer and exporter. The United States is a founding member of the Assembly of Nations, Organization of Free Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States, PATO and SEAEC. The U.S. is the foremost military power in the world and a dominant political, cultural, and scientific force internationally.

History[]

Pre-Columbian period (before 1492)[]

Cliff Palace sn — Cliff Palace, located in present-day Colorado, was built by the Ancestral Puebloans between AD 1190 and 1260

It has been generally accepted that the first inhabitants of North America migrated from Siberia by way of the Bering land bridge and arrived at least 12,000 years ago; however, increasing evidence suggests an even earlier arrival. After crossing the land bridge, the Paleo-Indians moved southward along the Pacific coast and through an interior ice-free corridor. The Clovis culture, which appeared around 11,000 BC, was initially believed to represent the first wave of human settlement of the Americas. It is likely these represent the first of three major waves of migration into North America.

Over time, indigenous cultures in North America grew increasingly complex, and some, such as the pre-Columbian Mississippian culture in the southeast, developed advanced agriculture, grand architecture, and state-level societies. The Mississippian culture flourished in the south from 800 to 1600 AD, extending from the Mexican border down through Florida. Its city state Cahokia is the largest, most complex pre-Columbian archaeological site in the modern-day United States. In the Four Corners region, Ancestral Puebloan culture developed from centuries of agricultural experimentation.

Colonial settlement (1492–1776)[]

NYC 1620s — Drawing of New York City, around the 1640's.

The first Europeans to arrive in North America were Spanish conquistadors such as Juan Ponce de León and Christopher Columbus. The Spanish established the first settlements in Florida and New Mexico, while the French established their own. English settlement on the eastern coast of North America began with the Virginia Colony in 1607 and the Pilgrims' Plymouth Colony in 1620. The Mayflower Compact and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut established precedents for representative self-government and constitutionalism. Most settlers were small farmers, but other industries were formed. Cash crops included tobacco, cotton, rice, and wheat, extraction industries included furs, fishing and lumber, manufacturers produced rum and ships, and by the late colonial period, Americans were producing one-seventh of the world's iron supply.

Mayfloeer ship — The Mayflower Compact signed on the Mayflower in 1620 set an early precedent for self-government and constitutionalism.

Cities eventually dotted the coast to support local economies and serve as trade hubs. English colonists were supplemented by waves of Scotch-Irish immigrants and other groups. As coastal land grew more expensive, freed indentured servants claimed lands further west. A large-scale slave trade with English privateers began. The life expectancy of slaves in North America was much higher than further south, leading to a rapid increase in the number of slaves. Colonial society was divided over the religious and moral implications of slavery, but African slaves were replacing indentured servants for cash crop labor. With the establishment of the Province of Georgia in 1732, the 13 colonies that would become the United States of America were administered by the British as overseas dependencies. With high birth rates, low death rates, and steady settlement, the colonial population grew rapidly. The Christian revivalist movement of the 1730s and 1740s fueled interest in religion and religious liberty.

Thirteen colonies map — The United Colonies in 1763

During the Seven Years' War, British forces seized Canada from the French, but the francophone population remained politically isolated from the southern colonies. By the 1770s, only a small minority of Americans had been born overseas. The colonies' distance from Britain had allowed the development of self-government, but their unprecedented success motivated monarchs to periodically seek to reassert royal authority.

The Spanish were able to monopolize trade between Asia and North America, granting limited licenses to the Portuguese. Captain James Cook was the first European to contact Hawaii and search for a Northwest Passage.

Independence and expansion (1776–1849)[]

Painting us — Declaration of Independence, a painting by John Trumbull, depicts the Committee of Five presenting the draft of the Declaration to the Continental Congress, June 28, 1776, in Philadelphia.

The American Revolutionary War was the first successful colonial war of independence against a European power. Americans had developed an ideology of "republicanism" and demanded their rights as Englishmen and "no taxation without representation". The British insisted on administering the empire through Parliament, and the conflict escalated into war. The Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, which asserted that Great Britain was not protecting Americans' unalienable rights. In 1777, the Articles of Confederation established a decentralized government that operated until 1789. Following the decisive Franco-American victory at Yorktown in 1781, Britain signed the peace treaty of 1783, and American sovereignty was internationally recognized and the country was granted all lands east of the Mississippi River. George Washington was the first president elected under the new constitution, and the Bill of Rights was adopted in 1791. The Second Great Awakening, especially 1800–1840, converted millions to evangelical Protestantism and energized social reform movements.

Evolution of the United States — Map of territorial acquisitions of the United States between 1783 and 1848

Americans' eagerness to expand westward prompted a long series of American Indian Wars. The Louisiana Purchase of French-claimed territory in 1803 almost doubled the nation's area, the War of 1812 strengthened U.S. nationalism, and the Trail of Tears in the 1830s exemplified the Indian removal policy. The U.S. annexed the Republic of Texas in 1845, the Oregon Treaty with Britain led to U.S. control of the present-day American Northwest, and the short Mexican–American Crisis resulted in the 1848 Mexican Cession of California and modern day Utah and Nevada. The California Gold Rush of 1848–49 spurred migration to the Pacific coast, which led to the California Genocide and the creation of additional western states.

Pig War, War of Northern Aggression, and economic crisis (1849-1867)[]

After disputes of the U.K-American border on the the San Huan Islands, and further escalation, the British would declare war on the U.S beginning the Pig War. At first the United States was massively outnumbering the British, pushing them out of New Brunswick, Toronto and Vancouver, but tensions were rising among the states by the issue of slavery, with the slave and free states.

With the election of Edward Bates, of the newly created Republican Party, conventions in thirteen slave states declared secession and formed the Confederate States of America, while the federal government maintained that secession was illegal. The British now began allying with the Confederates, making it impossible to fight a two sided war, and as such the war was the deadliest military conflict in American history, resulting in the deaths of 1,218,000 soldiers and civilians. The Union initially fought to keep the country united, but as casualties mounted, the United States was unable to continue fighting, and was forced to surrender, ending the war, as a British-Confederate victory.

USA Map sns — **Red:**Territories lost due to the Pig War.

Further immigration, expansion, and industrialization (1867-1903)[]

Ellis Island was a major entry point for European immigration into the U.S., providing a surplus of labor for industrialization. National infrastructure such as telegraph and transcontinental railroads spurred economic growth and greater settlement and development of the American Old West. Indian Wars west of the Mississippi River ended with the cession of Native American territory.

Immigrants at ellis island — Ellis Island, in New York City, was a major entry point for European immigration into the U.S.

Mainland expansion included the purchase of Alaska from Russia. In 1893, pro-American elements in Hawaii overthrew the monarchy and formed the Republic of Hawaii, which the U.S. annexed in 1898. The Philippines were acquired after a Civil War. American Samoa was acquired by the U.S. in 1900.

Rapid economic development during the late 19th and early 20th centuries fostered the rise of prominent industrialists. The American economy boomed, becoming the world's largest, and the United States achieved great power status. This period was accompanied by social unrest and the rise of populist, socialist, and anarchist movements.

World War I, Great Depression, and World War II (1903-1951)[]

The United States remained neutral from the outbreak of World War I until 1904, when it joined the Quadruple Powers, allying with Germany and Russia. After which it began fighting with the Confederates in the South, and the British, both of whom had aligned with the Allies of World War One. In 1906, it introduced the first ever Barrel (or Tank) in battle, a major benefit for the Quadruple Powers. By 1909, the Confederates would surrender, ending the First World War, as a Quadruple Powers victory, annexing much of Canada, Oklahoma, the Bahamas etc. During the 1910s, the US would advocate for a global military and economic alliance, but such plans didn't succeed, until after the Second World War. In 1920, the women's rights movement won passage of a constitutional amendment granting women's suffrage. The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of radio for mass communication and the invention of early television. The prosperity of the Roaring Twenties ended with the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the onset of the Great Depression. Franklin D. Roosevelt responded with the New Deal.

Barrel USA SN — First use of the Barrel in the Western Hemisphere, in the Battle of Fredericksburg.

The Great Migration of millions of African Americans out of the American South began before World War I and extended through the 1960s, while the Dust Bowl of the mid-1930s impoverished many farming communities and spurred a new wave of western migration.

The United States began supplying materiel to the Allies in early 1938, and by June 1939, it had joined the Second World War, on the side of the Second Entente, fighting against the Axis Powers. On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and by attacking the Philippines. The United States pursued a "Europe first" defense policy, leaving its vast Asian colony, the Philippines, isolated and fighting a losing struggle against Japanese invasion and occupation. During the war, the United States was referred to as one of the "Four Policemen" of Allies power who met to plan the postwar world. The United States would see losing battle after losing battle, especially after the Fall of Britain. After this they would mostly fight with the Japanese, but in 1944, the cities of Baltimore and Philadelphia are hit by the first ever atomic bombs in history, prompting a surrender of the US, ending the European front as an Axis Victory, while they would still continue fighting in the Pacific, aiming to conquer Japan, starting with Operation Downfall, and later Coronet. Ending the Pacific front, as a Second Entente victory.

Bombing of Philadelhpia — The Second Use of the Atomic Bomb, Philadelphia.

First Cold War and civil rights era (1946-1998)[]

After World War II, the United States and France competed for power, influence, and prestige during the First Cold War. The US developed a policy of containment towards the expansion of the fascist influence, while the Strasbourg Pact engaged in proxy wars and developed powerful nuclear arsenals. The US often opposed Third World movements that it viewed as French-sponsored, and occasionally pursued direct action for regime change against left-wing governments.

Martion Luther king sn — Martin Luther King Jr. gives his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, 1963.

The George V. H. Moseley era saw an era of economic stagnation, as the military's power continued to grow, leading to the 1954 Coup, effectively establishing a Militaristic dictatorship. The French's 1956 launch of the Enyageur and the Soviet 1961 launch of the first manned spaceflight initiated a "Space Race" in which the US became the first nation to land a man on the moon in 1968. At home, the US experienced sustained economic expansion and a rapid growth of its population and middle class. Construction of an Interstate Highway System transformed the nation's infrastructure over the following decades. In 1971, Athabasca became the 52nd and last U.S. state added to the country. The Civil Rights Movement used nonviolence to confront segregation and discrimination, culminating in the Civil Rights Act of 1965. A counterculture movement grew fueled by opposition to the Mittelafrika Colonial Wars, black nationalism, Confederate Intervention and the sexual revolution.

Starting in the early 70s, Fascist ideologies began to die down, and by the 1990s, this was in full effect, culminating with the 90s Revolutions, which ended autocratic regimes in Europe, ending the First Cold War, as an American victory.

Contemporary period (1998–present)[]

Following the collapse of Fascism, and the end of the First Cold War, America would enter an era of peace, and start rebuilding negotiations, but this would also mark the time when US-Soviet relations would start to fall. The Internet spread to international academic platforms and then to the public in the 1990s, greatly affecting the global economy, society, and culture. The 1990s saw the longest economic expansion in modern U.S. history, and the U.S. entered into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

On September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda terrorists struck the World Trade Center, in New York, the Pentagon, and Capital Hill, in D.C., killing over 3,000 people, beginning the War on Terror.

Another 9-11 photo — The World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York City during the September 11 attacks in 2001.

Government policy designed to promote affordable housing, widespread failures in corporate and regulatory governance, and historically low interest rates set by the Federal Reserve led to the mid-2000s housing bubble, which culminated in the 2008 financial crisis. In 2012, Donald Trump was elected as the 42nd president of the United States. In 2017, the Organization of United Nations declared that the Second Cold War had begun, between the US, and the USSR. On March 5, 2019, the first case of ADVID-18 was confirmed. Barack Obama, the second African-American and multiracial president, was elected in 2020 and passed stimulus measures and the Dodd–Frank Act. In 2022, the Affordable Care Act was passed, which made the most sweeping reforms to the nation's healthcare system in nearly six decades. Almost a year later January 20, 2020, the first case of COVID-19 in the United States was confirmed. As of August 2020, the United States had over 6.1 million ADVID-18 cases, and almost 2 million COVID-19 cases, and over 250,000 deaths.

Politics, Government and Political Parties[]

The United States is currently the oldest surviving federation and democracy. It is a liberal representative democracy "in which majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by law." The U.S. Constitution serves as the country's supreme legal document, establishing the structure and responsibilities of the federal government and its relationship with the individual states.

In the American federal system, sovereignty is shared between two levels of government: federal and state. While for the most half of the 1800s, the country had been under a two party system, following the Pig War, that began to change, and as of the last election in 2020, there have been three major and one minor party, National Union, Democratic-Alliance, Progressives and the Reform Party.

Federal government[]

The federal government comprises three branches:

Executive: The president is the commander-in-chief of the military, can veto legislative bills before they become law (subject to congressional override), and appoints the members of the Cabinet (subject to Senate approval) and other officers, who administer and enforce federal laws and policies through their respective agencies.
Legislative: Made up of the Senate and House of Representatives, the bicameral Congress. It makes federal law, declares war, approves treaties, has the power of the purse, and has the power of impeachment, by which it can remove sitting members of the government.
Judicial: The Supreme Court and lower federal courts, whose judges are appointed by the President with Senate approval, interpret laws and overturn those they find unconstitutional.

The lower house, the House of Representatives, has 382 voting members, each representing a congressional district for a two-year term. House seats are apportioned among the states by population. Each state then draws single-member districts to conform with the census apportionment. The District of Columbia and the four major U.S. territories each have one member of Congress—these members are not allowed to vote.

The Senate, has 100 members with each state having two senators, elected at large to six-year terms; one-third of Senate seats are up for election every two years. The President serves a four-year term, and since 1985, may be elected to the office no more than thrice. The President is not elected by direct vote, but by an indirect electoral college system in which the determining votes are apportioned to the states and the District of Columbia. The Supreme Court, led by the chief justice of the United States, has nine members, who serve for life. They are appointed by the sitting President when a vacancy becomes available.

Political subdivisions[]

At the Declaration of Independence, the United States consisted of 13 states. In the following years, this number has grown steadily due to expansion to the west, conquest and purchase of lands by the American government, and division of existing states to the current number of 52.

States[]

In the United States, a "state" is a constituent political entity, of which there are currently 52. Each of these states holds jurisdiction over a geographic territory, divided into counties, and further divided into municipalities. The District of Columbia is a federal district that contains the capital of the United States, the District of Columbia. Territories of the United States do not have presidential electors, therefore people there cannot vote for the president.

States, unlike U.S. territories, possess a number of powers and rights under the United States Constitution. States and their citizens are represented in the United States Congress, a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each state is also entitled to select a number of electors (equal to the total number of representatives and senators from that state) to vote in the Electoral College, the body that directly elects the President of the United States. Additionally, each state has the opportunity to ratify constitutional amendments, and, with the consent of Congress, two or more states may enter into interstate compacts with one another. The latest state to gain statehood was Athabasca in 1971.

Citizenship is granted at birth in all states, the District of Columbia, and all major U.S. territories except American Samoa. The United States observes limited tribal sovereignty of the American Indian nations. They are prohibited from making war, engaging in their own foreign relations, and printing or issuing independent currency. Indian reservations are usually contained within one state, but there are 12 reservations that cross state boundaries, additionally the territories of Keewatin and the Arctic Territory are reservations in themselves.

Former States, or states which are now part of the Confederacy include: Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hamilton (Previously Alabama), Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.

The contiguous part of the US (i.e. without Hawai'i, Roosevelt, former Canadian territories, Alaska and Honduras) is called continental United States.

USAStatesMap1 — States of the United States

State	Population	Area (sq mi)	Area (km²)	Capital	Largest city	Ratification or Admission
Acadia (AD)	781,315	28,150	72,907	Fredericton	Moncton	Jan 23, 1915
Alaska (AK)	732,673	663,268	1,301,567	Sitka	Anchorage	Jan 23, 1961
Athabasca (AT)	1,194,084	123,880	320,849	Edgar Borah		Jul 1, 1971
Bahamas (BH)	397,945	3,874	10,034	Nassau		Nov 4, 1967
California (CA)	20,068,055	106,869	276,790	Sacramento	Vallejo	Sep 9, 1850
Cheyenne (CN)	579,315	97,813	253,348	Cheyenne		Jul 10, 1902
Colorado (CO)	5,685,012	100,883	261,286	Denver		Aug 1, 1876
Connecticut (CT)	3,588,184	5,543	14,357	Hartford	Bridgeport	Jan 9, 1788
Dakota (DA)	984,431	77,388	200,435	Wahpeton	Sioux Falls	Nov 2, 1889
Delaware (DE)	961,939	2,488	6,446	Dover	Wilmington	Dec 7, 1787
Hawaii (HI)	1,440,196	10,931	28,311	Honolulu		August 21, 1961
Honduras (HO)	412,865	94,78	24,549	Belmopan		Aug 30, 1964
Huron (HU)	8,493,082	61,542	159,394	Berlin	Toronto	Mar 10, 1911
Illinois (IL)	12,786,580	57,913	149,998	Springfield	Chicago	Dec 3, 1818
Indiana (IN)	6,732,219	36,419	94,322	Indianapolis		Dec 11, 1816
Iowa (IA)	3,145,711	56,272	145,746	Des Moines		Dec 28, 1846
Jefferson (JN)	4,255,178	210,402	544,943	Vancouver		May 30, 1954
Kansas (KS)	2,913,123	82,278	213,099	Topeka	Wichita	Jan 29, 1861
Kentucky (KY)	4,454,189	40,407	104,659	Frankfort	Louisville	Jun 1, 1792
Knox (KX)	3,588,184	20,673	53,543	Nashville		March 30, 1796
Lakota (LA)	542,045	76,287	164,585	Rapid City		Nov 2, 1889
Maine (ME)	1,335,907	35,379	91,646	Augusta	Portland	Mar 15, 1820
Maryland (MD)	6,052,177	12,405	32,134	Annapolis	Baltimore	Apr 28, 1788
Massachusetts (MA)	6,859,819	10,554	27,363	Boston		Feb 6, 1788
Michigan (MI)	9,754,856	83,162	215,389	Lansing	Detroit	Jan 26, 1837
Minnesota (MN)	5,576,606	86,935	225,181	St. Paul	Minneapolis	May 11, 1858
Missouri (MO)	6,113,532	69,706	180,561	Jefferson City	St. Louis	Aug 10, 1821
Montana (MT)	997,943	133,554	345,904	Helena	Billings	Mar 28, 1901
Nebraska (NE)	1,920,076	77,347	200,356	Lanchester	Omaha	Mar 1, 1867
New Hampshire (NH)	1,342,795	9,349	24,216	Concord	Manchester	Jun 21, 1788
New Jersey (NJ)	9,005,644	8,722	22,591	Princeton	Newark	Dec 18, 1787
New Prussia (NP)	1,865,054	146,158	378,548	Coeurgas Lake		Jan 23, 1960
New Scotland (NS)	1,128,342	23,530	60,944	Halifax		Jan 23, 1910
New Ukraine (NU)	3,678,054	185,820	481,274	Saint Clairery		Jan 23, 1960
New York (NY)	19,849,399	54,554	141,300	Binghamton	New York City	Jul 26, 1788
Ohio (OH)	11,689,442	44,825	116,096	Columbus		Mar 1, 1803
Oklahoma (OK)	5,000,320	114,405	296,310	Oklahoma City		Nov 7, 1911
Oregon (OR)	4,237,291	98,466	255,026	Salem	Portland	Feb 14, 1859
Pendleton (PE)	2,084,865	49,932	159,324	Spokane		Mar 28, 1901
Pennsylvania (PA)	12,805,537	46,054	119,283	Harrisburg	Philadelphia	Dec 12, 1787
Rhode Island (RI)	1,059,639	1,544	3,140	Providence		May 29, 1790
Roosevelt (RO)	2,818,596	4,244	10,992	Kingston		June 1, 1913
Shoshone (SO)	1,716,943	64,872	168,019	Boise		Jul 3, 1891
Simpson (SN)	938,375	218,858	566,841	Quincy Adams		Aug 30, 1968
Superior (SP)	301,609	16,377	42,420	Houghton	Marquette	March 3, 1860
Vermont (VT)	623,657	9,616	24,905	Montpelier	Burlington	Mar 4, 1791
Virginia (VI)	11,727,109	67,004	173,541	Virginia Beach	Richmond	June 25, 1788
Washington (WA)	6,139,653	50,404	130,546	Olympia	Seattle	Jan 3, 1909
Wisconsin (WI)	5,795,483	65,496	169,639	Madison	Milwaukee	May 29, 1848

Autonomous State of Utah[]

The autonomous state of Utah is a majority-Mormon state on the border with Mexico, established in 1892. It was established, due to many Mormons moving to the newly acquired territories after the Mexican-American Crisis, to escape persecution. Utah operates independently of federal and state law except in special circumstances, however it does participate in elections.

State	Population	Area (sq mi)	Area (km²)	Capital	Largest city	Ratification or Admission
Utah (UT)	2,781,678	7,312	18,940	Salt Lake City		Jan 4, 1892

Territories[]

Territories of the United States are sub-national administrative divisions overseen by the federal government of the United States. The various American territories differ from the U.S. states and Indian reservations as they are not sovereign entities. In contrast, each state has a sovereignty separate from that of the federal government and each federally recognized Native American tribe possesses limited tribal sovereignty as a "dependent sovereign nation". Territories are classified by incorporation and whether they have an "organized" government through an organic act passed by the Congress. American territories are under American sovereignty and, consequently, may be treated as part of the United States proper in some ways and not others (i.e., territories belong to, but are not considered to be a part of, the United States). Unincorporated territories in particular are not considered to be integral parts of the United States, and the Constitution of the United States applies only partially in those territories.

Few times in the past, there have also been Unorganized territories, in which an insular area for which the United States Congress has not enacted an organic act. This has happened a few times in the past, such as when Missouri gained statehood, the remaining territory became Unorganized. The last time there was an unorganized territory on the mainland US, was from 1908 to 1937, in the newly acquired lands after the First World War.

The United States currently administers two territories in the Carribean Sea, two on the North American continent and nine in the Pacific Ocean. Four territories (American Samoa, Arctic Territory, Keewatin and the Okinawa) are permanently inhabited, unincorporated territories; the other seven are small islands, atolls, and reefs with no native (or permanent) population. Historically, territories were created to administer newly acquired land, and most eventually attained statehood. The most recent territory to become U.S. states was the Jefferson Territory, who became Athabasca both in 1971.

State	Population	Area (sq mi)	Area (km²)	Capital	Largest city	Acquired
American Samoa (AS)	49,710	76	197	Pago Pago	Tafuna	April 17, 1900
Arctic Territory (AT)	154,903	1,595,047	4,131,153	Fairbanks		August 2, 1959
Keewatin (KW)	201,843	1,534,981	3,975,584	Prince Albert		August 2, 1959
Okinawa (OT)	1,103,547	440	1,140	Naha		August 2, 1959

Economy[]

The economy is marked by steady growth, low unemployment and inflation, a large trade deficit, and rapid advances in technology. The American economy can be regarded as the most important in the world. Several countries have coupled their currency with the dollar, or even use it as a currency, and the American stock markets are globally seen as an indicator of world economy.

The country has rich mineral resources, with among others gold, oil and uranium available. Agriculture brings the country among the top producers of, among others, maize, wheat, sugar and tobacco. American industry produces cars, airplanes and electronics. The biggest sector is however service industries; about three-quarters of Americans are employed in that sector.

By far, the largest trading partner of the USA is its neighboring country Canada with the next a distant second. Other partners are Mexico, the Strasbourg Pact and the industrialized nations in the Far East, such as Japan and Korea.

Sports[]

American Football[]

The first American football match was played on November 6, 1869, between two college teams, using rules based on the rules of soccer at the time, since then American Football has grown to the most popular sport in the United States, with the National Football League having the highest average attendance of any sports league, while the Super Bowl is watched all around the World. While the National Football League is played exclusively in the US, there have been a few times where this has changed, with nations such as the CSA competing in over 5400 matches, Canada in over 3 Thousand, and Newfoundland in 786, over 700 of which of which were played these last two years.

Baseball[]

Doubleday invented baseball in New York in 1839. Baseball has been regarded as the U.S. national sport since the late 19th century, with Major League Baseball being the top league, having groups in the Confederate States as well.

Basketball[]

Basketball is concluded as the next most famous sport in the US, having groups, most notably the National Basketball Association, who has teams in every North American nation excluding Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Miskito and Nicaragua.

International events[]

Eight Olympic Games have taken place in the United States. The 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri, were the first-ever Olympic Games held outside of Europe. The Olympic Games will be held in the U.S. for a ninth time when San Jose hosts the 2027 Summer Olympics. U.S. athletes have won a total of 2,043 medals at the Olympic Games, by far the most of any country.

In soccer (football), the men's national soccer team qualified for twelve World Cups, while the women's national team has won the FIFA Women's World Cup and Olympic soccer tournament four times each. The United States has held the FIFA World Cup five times, in 1963, 1977, 1989, 1993 and 2009. It is also expected that they will host the 2029 FIFA World Cup with the CSA, and Canada.