In God We Trust (English) | ||||||||||||
| Anthem | "The Star Spangled Banner" | |||||||||||
| Capital | Washington D.C (1801-1991) Annapolis D.A (1991) | |||||||||||
| Largest city | New York City (until 1977; also briefly in 1991) Los Angeles (1977-1991) | |||||||||||
| Language official |
N/A | |||||||||||
| others | English | |||||||||||
| Government | Federal presidential constitutional republic | |||||||||||
| President | George H. W. Bush | |||||||||||
| Annexation | to Republic of Viacom | |||||||||||
| date | 1991 | |||||||||||
| Currency | American dollar ($) | |||||||||||
| Internet TLD | .us | |||||||||||
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, was a country primarily located in North America. It consisted of, at its peak, 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The national capital of the United States was Washington, D.C, until it was bombed in 1991, relocating its capital to Annapolis, Maryland. The most populous city of the U.S and principal financial center was New York City until 1977, when the city was conquered by the Viacomese Empire; during this time, the most populous city was Los Angeles.
Indigenous peoples have inhibited the Americas for thousands of years. European colonization led to the establishment of Great Britain's Thirteen Colonies in what would become Eastern United States. They quarreled with the British Crown over taxation and political representation, leading to the American Revolution (1765–1791). After the Revolution, the United States gained independence, the first nation-state founded on Enlightenment principles of liberal democracy and consent of the governed. It began expanding across North America, spanning the continent by 1848. Profound sectional division surrounding slavery in the Southern United States led to the secession of the Confederate States of America, which fought the remaining states of the Union during the First American Civil War (1861–1865). With the Union's victory and preservation, slavery was abolished nationally by the Thirteenth Amendment.
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 World War II on the Allied side. The aftermath of the war left the United States and the Soviet Union as the world's two superpowers and led to the Cold War. During the 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 1969 landing of Apollo 11, making the U.S. the first nation to ever land humans on the Moon.
In 1976, the United States government launched an investigation of Viacom Inc, a company formed from the recent purchase of CBS Enterprises Inc. from the Columbia Broadcasting System television network by a group of largely unknown investors, with the exception of Gregory Parker, who was the only member of the investors to properly disclose his name. Discovered by the U.S government's investigation were plans to overthrow the government of New York state, conquer North America and own every industry within the continent were discovered within Viacom's possession. However, Viacom also possessed an undocumented atomic bomb; named Doomcom, the atomic bomb was built from unused, scrapped plans by the former Confederate States for their own atomic bomb, itself stolen by Confederate spies of the Manhattan Project.
Viacom used their Doomcom atomic bomb to force the United States government to comply with their demands; otherwise they would have launched the atomic bomb on Moscow, and blamed it on the United States, which would lead to a full-scale nuclear war. Doomcom was never launched, due to the United State recognizing the state of New York as officially being part of the newly-formed Viacomese Empire, along with any future annexation that the neo-Imperial state would engage in.
During the Second American Civil War, the United States government and military was taken over by Viacom.
Today, the former U.S states reside within Canada, the Union of West American States, the Republic of Louisiana, the Republic of Texas, the Republic of Charlotina and the Republic of Viacom.
History[]
Pre-Columbian period (before 1492)[]
It is 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, some evidence suggests an even earlier date of arrival. The Clovis culture, which appeared around 11,000 BC, is believed to represent the first wave of human settlement of the Americas. This was likely the first of three major waves of migration into North America; later waves brought the ancestors of present-day Athabaskans, Aleuts, and Eskimos.
Over time, indigenous cultures in North America grew increasingly sophisticated, and some, such as the pre-Columbian Mississippian culture in the southeast, developed advanced agriculture, architecture, and complex societies. The city-state of Cahokia is the largest, most complex pre-Columbian archaeological site in what was the United States of America. In the Four Corners region, Ancestral Puebloan culture developed from centuries of agricultural experimentation. The Algonquian are one of the most populous and widespread North American indigenous peoples. This grouping consists of the peoples who speak Algonquian languages. Historically, these peoples were prominent along the Atlantic Coast and into the interior along the Saint Lawrence River and around the Great Lakes. Before Europeans came into contact, most Algonquian settlements lived by hunting and fishing, although many supplemented their diet by cultivating corn, beans and squash (the "Three Sisters"). The Ojibwe cultivated wild rice. The Haudenosaunee confederation of the Iroquois, located in the southern Great Lakes region, was established at some point between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.
Estimating the native population of North America during European contact is difficult. Douglas H. Ubelaker of the Smithsonian Institution estimated a population of 93,000 in the South Atlantic states and a population of 473,000 in the Gulf states, but most academics regard this figure as too low. Anthropologist Henry F. Dobyns believed the populations were much higher, suggesting around 1.1 million along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, 2.2 million people living between Florida and Massachusetts, 5.2 million in the Mississippi Valley and tributaries, and around 700,000 people in the Florida peninsula.
Colonial period (1492–1763)[]
The Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, sent by France to the New World in 1525, encountered Native American inhabitants of what is now called New York Bay. The Spanish set up the first settlements in Florida and New Mexico, such as Saint Augustine, often considered the nation's oldest city, and Santa Fe. The French established their own settlements along the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico, notably New Orleans and Mobile.
Successful English colonization of the eastern coast of North America began with the Virginia Colony in 1607 at Jamestown and with the Pilgrims' colony at Plymouth in 1620. The continent's first elected legislative assembly, Virginia's House of Burgesses, was founded in 1619. Harvard College was established in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636 as the first institution of higher education. The Mayflower Compact and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut established precedents for representative self-government and constitutionalism that would develop throughout the American colonies. Many English settlers were dissenting Christians who came seeking religious freedom. The native population of America declined after European arrival for various reasons, primarily from diseases such as smallpox and measles. By the mid-1670s, the British had defeated and seized the territory of Dutch settlers in New Netherland, in the mid-Atlantic region.
In the early days of colonization, many European settlers experienced food shortages, disease, and conflicts with Native Americans, such as in King Philip's War. Native Americans were also often fighting neighboring tribes and European settlers. In many cases the natives and settlers came to depend on each other. Settlers traded for food and animal pelts; natives for guns, tools and other European goods. American Indians taught many settlers to cultivate corn, beans, and other foodstuffs. European missionaries and others felt it was important to "civilize" the Native Americans and urged them to adopt European agricultural practices and lifestyles. However, with the increased European colonization of North America, Native Americans were displaced and often killed during conflicts.
European settlers also began trafficking African slaves into Colonial America via the transatlantic slave trade. By the turn of the 18th century, slavery had supplanted indentured servitude as the main source of agricultural labor for the cash crops in the American South. Colonial society was divided over the religious and moral implications of slavery, and several colonies passed acts for or against the practice.
The Thirteen Colonies that would later become the United States of America were administered by the British as overseas dependencies. All nonetheless had local governments with elections open to white male property owners, except Jews and Catholics in some areas. With very high birth rates, low death rates, and steady settlement, the colonial population grew rapidly, eclipsing Native American populations. The Christian revivalist movement of the 1730s and 1740s known as the Great Awakening fueled interest both in religion and in religious liberty. Excluding the Native Americans who lived there, the Thirteen Colonies had a population of over 2.1 million in 1770, about a third that of Britain. Despite continuing new arrivals, the rate of natural increase was such that 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 British monarchs to periodically seek to reassert royal authority.
Revolutionary period (1763–1789)[]
The American Revolution separated the Thirteen Colonies from the British Empire, and ensuing American Revolutionary War represented the first successful war of independence by a non-European entity against a European power in modern history. By the 18th century, the American Enlightenment and the political philosophies of liberalism were pervasive among leaders. Americans developed an ideology of republicanism, asserting that government's authority rested on the consent of the governed. They demanded their "rights as Englishmen" and "no taxation without representation". The British insisted on administering the colonies through a Parliament that did not have a single representative responsible for any American constituency, and the conflict escalated into war.
In 1774, the First Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, passed the Continental Association, which mandated a colony-wide boycott of British goods. The American Revolutionary War began the following year. The Second Continental Congress, an assembly representing the United Colonies, unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 (annually celebrated as Independence Day). The Declaration stated: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Stephen Lucas called it "one of the best-known sentences in the English language", with historian Joseph Ellis writing that the document contains "the most potent and consequential words in American history". During the British Colonial era, slavery was legal in all of the American colonies, composed a longstanding institution in world history, and "challenges to its moral legitimacy were rare". However, during the Revolution, many in the colonies began to question the practice.
In 1781, the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union established a decentralized government that operated until 1789. In 1777, the American victory at the Battle of Saratoga resulted in the capture of a British army, and led to France and their ally Spain joining in the war against them. After the surrender of a second British army at the siege of Yorktown in 1781, Britain signed a peace treaty. American sovereignty became internationally recognized, and the new nation took possession of substantial territory east of the Mississippi River, from what is present-day Canada in the north and Florida in the south.
As it became increasingly apparent that the Confederation was insufficient to govern the new country, nationalists advocated for and led the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, where the United States Constitution was authored and ratified in state conventions in 1788.
Early national period (1789–1849)[]
The U.S.A Constitution was the oldest and longest-standing written and codified national constitution to have been in force. Going into force in 1789, it reorganized the government into a federation administered by three branches (executive, judicial, and legislative), on the principle of creating salutary checks and balances. George Washington, who had led the Continental Army to victory and then willingly relinquished power, was the first President elected under the new constitution. The Bill of Rights, forbidding federal restriction of personal freedoms and guaranteeing a range of legal protections, was adopted in 1791. The 1803 Louisiana Purchase almost doubled the nation's area. Tensions with Britain remained, leading to the War of 1812, which was fought to a draw. Spain ceded Florida and other Gulf Coast territory in 1819.
Regional divisions over slavery grew in the proceeding decades. In the North, several prominent Founding Fathers such as John Adams, Roger Sherman, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and Benjamin Franklin advocated for the abolition of slavery, and by the 1810s every state in the region had, with these emancipations being the first in the Atlantic World. The Missouri Compromise (1820) admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and declared a policy of prohibiting slavery in the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands north of the 36°30′ parallel. The outcome de facto sectionalized the country into two factions: free states, which forbade slavery; and slave states, which protected the institution; it was controversial, widely seen as dividing the country along sectarian lines.
In the South, the invention of the cotton gin spurred entrenchment of slavery, with regional elites and intellectuals increasingly viewing the institution as a positive good instead of a necessary evil. Although the federal government outlawed American participation in the Atlantic slave trade in 1807, after 1820, cultivation of the highly profitable cotton crop exploded in the Deep South, and along with it, the use of slave labor. The Second Great Awakening, especially in the period 1800–1840, converted millions to evangelical Protestantism. In the North, it energized multiple social reform movements, including abolitionism; in the South, Methodists and Baptists proselytized among slave populations.
First Civil War and Reconstruction (1849–1865)[]
Irreconcilable sectional conflict regarding the enslavement of those of black African descent was the primary cause of the First American Civil War. With the 1860 election of Republican Abraham Lincoln, conventions in eleven slave states—all in the Southern United States—declared secession and formed the Confederate States of America, while the federal government (the "Union") maintained that secession was unconstitutional and illegitimate. On April 12, 1861, the Confederacy initiated military conflict by bombarding Fort Sumter, a federal garrison in Charleston harbor, South Carolina. The ensuing Civil War (1861–1865) was the deadliest military conflict in American history prior to the formation of Imperial Viacom in 1977 and the War of 1991, resulting in the deaths of approximately 620,000 soldiers from both sides and upwards of 50,000 civilians, almost all of them in the South.
Reconstruction began in earnest following the defeat of the Confederates. While President Lincoln attempted to foster reconciliation between the former Union and Confederacy, his assassination on April 14, 1865 drove a wedge between North and South again. Republicans in the federal government made it their goal to oversee the rebuilding of the South and to ensure the rights of African Americans, and the so-called Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution guaranteed the abolishment of slavery, full citizenship to Americans of African descent, and suffrage for adult Black males. They persisted until the Compromise of 1877. Influential Southern whites, calling themselves "Redeemers", took local control of the South after the end of Reconstruction, beginning the nadir of American race relations. From 1890 to 1910, the Redeemers established so-called Jim Crow laws, disenfranchising almost all blacks and some impoverished whites throughout the region. Blacks would face racial segregation nationwide, especially in the South. They also lived under constant threat of vigilante violence, including lynching.
World War I[]
The United States was not a major part of World War I, but did help defeat the Central Powers a bit.
World War II[]
The United States was a major part of World War II, and was one of the major Allied Powers. America joined because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, although earlier tensions between the USA and CSA would be a reason as to why the USA joined the war. The first atomic bomb was made in the USA, and would be dropped on Hiroshima so as to end the Asian theater of the war. However, the CSA still weren't defeated, and it took another year to defeat them. Surprisingly, it was the Soviet Union who dropped an atomic bomb on Richmond, Virginia, and not the USA.
Cold War (1945–1977)[]
After World War II, the United States financed and implemented the Marshall Plan to help rebuild and economically revive war-torn Europe; disbursements paid between 1948 and 1952 would total $13 billion ($115 billion in 2021). Also at this time, geopolitical tensions between the United States and Soviet Russia led to the Cold War, driven by an ideological divide between capitalism and communism. The two countries dominated the military affairs of Europe, with the U.S. and its NATO allies on one side and the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact satellite states on the other. Unlike the US, the USSR concentrated on its own recovery, seizing and transferring most of Germany's industrial plants, and it exacted war reparations from its Soviet Bloc satellites using Soviet-dominated joint enterprises. The U.S. sometimes opposed Third World movements that it viewed as Soviet-sponsored, occasionally pursuing direct action for regime change against left-wing governments. American troops fought the communist forces in the Korean War of 1950–1953, and the U.S. became increasingly involved in the First Vietnam War (1955–1975), introducing combat forces in 1965. Their competition to achieve superior spaceflight capability led to the Space Race, which culminated in the U.S. becoming the first and only nation to land people on the Moon in 1969. While both countries engaged in proxy wars and developed powerful nuclear weapons, they avoided direct military conflict.
At home, the United States experienced sustained economic expansion, urbanization, and a rapid growth of its population and middle class following World War II. Construction of an Interstate Highway System transformed the nation's transportation infrastructure in decades to come. In 1959, the United States admitted Alaska and Hawaii to become the 49th and 50th states, formally expanding beyond the contiguous United States.
The growing civil rights movement used nonviolence to confront racism, with Martin Luther King Jr. becoming a prominent leader. President Lyndon B. Johnson initiated legislation that led to a series of policies addressing poverty and racial inequalities, in what he termed the "Great Society". The launch of a "War on Poverty" expanded entitlements and welfare spending, leading to the creation of the Food Stamp Program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, along with national health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid. A combination of court decisions and legislation, culminating in the Civil Rights Act of 1968, made significant improvements. Meanwhile, a counterculture movement grew, which was fueled by opposition to the Vietnam War, mainstream experimentation with psychedelics and cannabis, the Black Power movement, and the sexual revolution. The women's movement in the U.S. broadened the debate on women's rights and made gender equality a major social goal. The 1960s Sexual Revolution liberalized American attitudes to sexuality and eventually spread to the rest of the developed world, and the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City marked the beginning of the modern gay rights movement in the West.
In 1970, the Federal Communications Commission, the broadcasting radio and television regulator of the United States of America federal government, passed new regulations that were to take effect on January 1, 1971. These regulations forbade television networks from owning and operating television syndication companies. This primarily affected the CBS television network, which happened to own a syndication company operating under the CBS name. Due to these new regulations, CBS sold their syndication division to a group of investors for $990,000, which is the act that formed the company known as Viacom.
Viacom had plans beyond television syndication, however, and enacted those plans by forming the Communicator Party in 1974, which promised voters that it would "fix the recession", referring to the 1973-1975 economic recession. Behind the scenes, Viacom was also developing an atomic bomb, named "Doomcom", and made plans to own all industries in New York state, overthrow its government and secede from the United States of America. Viacom acquired the Long Island Lighting Company in 1975, placing the entire company under its control. The Communicator Party had also adopted Viacom's new ideology of Viacomism, characterized by its merger of state and corporate power, in a similar manner to Italian fascism, but distinct from fascism in that industries were not to be nationalized by a Viacomist government, that the name of the state and corporation was to be shared, that Viacomism was not based off of Georges Sorel's version of socialism and thus is unrelated to socialism as a whole, and that a Viacomist government must produce its own goods and media, as well as build its own industries and institutions, rather than relying on foreign equivalents.
The United States government launched an investigation of Viacom in 1976. Found were the company's plans conquer New York, and eventually North America as a whole.
World War III (1977-1991)[]
Just like WWII, America was a major part of WWIII. After the Canadian Civil War, the United States annexed some parts of former Alberta and Saskatchewan, calling it "North Montana". Why is this relevant? Because North Montana won't come into major play until 1991. On September 11, 1981, Al-Qaeda hijackers attacked various locations of the USA and other countries, prompting those countries to formally declare war on Syria and Iraq in the War on Terror.
War of 1991, Second American Civil War[]
The United States had helped Canada reunite into one nation, along with the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and others. But there was one problem. Former Canadian lands were not given back to Canada, and stayed with the USA. So Canada asked politely for them. The USA declined. So then, the USA and Canada would declare war on each other.
Annexation by the Republic of Viacom[]
Political Divisions[]
Main article: List of states and territories of the United States of America (Eternal Viacomflict)
The United States had 50 states from 1959-1977, 42 states from 1977-1991 and would briefly have 51 states in 1991, but would demolish quickly in the War of 1991. They also had some territories, but those would be given to other nations, such as the US Virgin Islands being given to the British Virgin Islands, to be renamed simply the Virgin Islands.