United States of America

  • Historically Known As: America
  • Also Known As: USA, US


The United States is the world's third-largest country by area (Russia is the largest and Canada is second) and by population (after China and India). Mt McKinley is highest point in North America and Death Valley the lowest point on the continent. - AsNotedIn


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Timeline

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1776/07/04 United States Declares Independence from Britain American Colonies Declare Independence from Great Britain
2014/11/00 Barack Obama US President The Obama administration issues a series of guidelines instructing ICE to focus on national security and public safety threats, convicted felons and people who entered the US illegally after 1 January 2014. Anyone else is not to be apprehended.
2021/09/30 Joe Biden US President Alejandro Mayorkas orders US immigration officers not to detain or deport illegal aliens. ICE officers are no longer permitted to arrest and deport undocumented immigrants as long as they haven't commit a major crime.

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1969/00/00 Treasury Secretary Joseph Barr testified that in 1966, 155 high-income people paid zero income tax. Instead of eliminating the tax preferences that enabled these taxpayers to reduce their taxable income, Congress created a minimum tax. - taxfoundation.org United States Capitol Washington, DC

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5 Barrel Pale Ale Beer
90 Shilling Beer
Adam Beer
Alesmith IPA Beer
Allagash Tripel Reserve Beer
Alpha Dog Beer
Alpha King Beer
American White Cheddar Cheese White Cheddar is a popular cheese in the United States of America.
Anchor Porter Beer
Anchor Steam Beer Beer
Anniversary Ale Beer
Apple Pie Pie As American as apple pie
Arrogant Bastard Ale Beer
Avatar Jasmine IPA Beer
Bam Bire Beer
Bard's The Original Sorghum Malt Beer Beer
Bergenost Cheese
Big Daddy Beer
Big Hoppy Monster Beer
Big Swede Beer
Bitch Creek ESB Beer
Bittersweet Lenny's RIPA Beer
Black Bavarian Beer
Black Butte Porter Beer
Black Chocolate Stout Beer
Black Forest Beer
Black Gold Bourbon Imperial Stout Beer
Black Sand Porter Beer
Blackberry Fruit
Blue Moon Beer
Bologna Sausage Meat Sausage
Boont Amber Ale Beer
Boudin Cruor Sausage
Bourbon County Stout Beer
Breakfast Sausage Meat Sausage
Brick Cheese Cheese
BridgePort India Pale Ale Beer
BridgePort Old Knucklehead Beer
Brooklyn Lager Beer
Brooklyn Local 1 Beer
Brooklyner-Schneider Hopfen-Weisse Beer
Budweiser Beer
Cajun Andouille Meat Sausage
Caldera IPA Beer
Cane and Ebel Beer
Carrot Cake Cake
Cascade Cuve du Jongleur Beer
Cascade Kriek Ale Beer
CascaZilla Beer
Celis White Beer
Chaudin Meat Sausage
Cheddar Cheese Cheese
Cheese curds Cheese
Chicken and Dumplings
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cookie The Chocolate chip cookie was invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield at her "Toll House Inn" restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts.
Colby Cheese Cheese
Colby-Jack Cheese Cheese
Colorado Blackie Cheese
Consecration Beer
Cornbread Corn Bread
Cottonwood Pumpkin Spiced Ale Beer
Cowgirl Creamery's Red Hawk Cheese
Cream Cheese Cheese
Creole Cream Cheese Cheese
Cup Cheese Cheese
Curieux Beer
Cutthroat Porter Beer
Dale's Pale Ale Beer
Dark Lord Beer
Dead Guy Ale Beer
Decadence Beer
Deep Water Doppelbock Lager Beer
Devil Food Cake Cake
Domaine DuPage Beer
Dortmunder Gold Beer
Double Barrel Pale Ale Beer
Double Simcoe IPA Beer
Downtown Brown Beer
Dragonstooth Stout Beer
Drake's IPA Beer
Drop Top Amber Ale Beer
Eclipse Imperial Stout Beer
Eel River Organic Porter Beer
El Toro Negro Oatmeal Stout Beer
Fancy Lawnmower Beer
Farmer Cheese Cheese
Fat Dog Stout Beer
Fat Tire Amber Ale Beer
Feast Of Fools Beer
Fish Tale Leviathan Beer
Flying Fish Belgian Style Dubbel Beer
Flying Fish Exit 11 Beer
Founders Breakfast Stout Beer
Fred Beer
Furthermore Knot Stock Beer
Geary's Pale Ale Beer
Goetta Meat Sausage
Gonzo Imperial Porter Beer
Goose Island India Pale Ale Beer
Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter Beer
Green Peppercorn Tripel Beer
Gumballhead Beer
Half-smoke Meat Sausage
Hamburger Hamburgers are Americana.
Hampshire Special Ale Beer
Harpoon Munich Dark Beer
Hell or High Watermelon Wheat Beer
Hemp Ale Beer
Hercules Double IPA Beer
Hibernation Ale Beer
Highland Oatmeal Porter Beer
Hog maw Meat Sausage
Honey Cake Cake
Hoop Cheese Cheese
Hop Head Beer
Hop Monkey IPA Beer
Hop Rod Rye Beer
Hop-15 Beer
Hot link Meat Sausage
Hotdog Meat Sausage
Imperial Pumking Beer
In-Heat Wheat Beer
India Pelican Ale Beer
Italian Sausage Meat Sausage
John Barleycorn Barleywine Ale Beer
Juniper Pale Ale Beer
Kiwanda Cream Ale Beer
Kodiak Brown Ale Beer
Krampus Imperial Helles Lager Beer
La Folie Beer
La Roja Beer
Lagunitas Brown Shugga Beer
Lagunitas Maximus Beer
Lagunitas Pils Beer
Lancaster Milk Stout Beer
Le Freak Beer
Leafer Madness Beer
Left Hand Milk Stout Beer
Left Hand Sawtooth Ale Beer
Liberty Ale Beer
Liederkranz Cheese Cheese
Limburger Cheese Cheese
Longfellow Winter Ale Beer
Mad Elf Ale Beer
Mad Hatter Beer
Magnumus Ete Tomahawkus ESB Beer
Mamma Mia! Pizza Beer Beer
Matilda Beer
Maytag Blue Cheese Cheese
Monterey Jack Cheese Cheese
Mothership Wit Beer
Muenster Cheese Cheese
Nacho Cheese Cheese
Napa Smith Wheat Beer Beer
No 9 Beer
Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout Beer
Oatis Oatmeal Stout Beer
Obliteration V Beer
Odell IPA Beer
Old Boardhead Barleywine Ale Beer
Old Crustacean Beer
Old Foghorn Beer
Old Thumper Extra Special Ale Beer
OMB Copper Beer
Ommegang Abbey Ale Beer
Orchard White Beer
Oro de Calabaza Beer
Our Special Ale Beer
Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer
Pekin Duck Waterfowl
Pepper Jack Cheese Cheese
Pepperoni Meat Sausage
Pike IPA Beer
Pike Monk's Uncle Tripel Ale Beer
Pikeland Pils Beer
Pinconning Cheese Cheese
Pliny the Elder Beer
Point Reyes Porter Beer
Pullman Brown Ale Beer
Pure Hoppiness Beer
Racer 5 Beer
Rattlesnake Meat The species of rattlesnakes are native to the Americas.
Rejewvenator Beer
Robert The Bruce Beer
Rogue Mocha Porter Beer
Root Beer Soda Pop
Ryan O'Sullivan's Imperial Stout Beer
S'muttonator Beer
Sacramento Russian Imperial Stout Beer
Saint Arnold Summer Pils Beer
Saison Athene Beer
Saison Rue Beer
Saison-Brett Beer
Sam Adams Utopias Beer
Samuel Adams Boston Lager Beer
Samuel Adams Double Bock Beer
Samuel Adams Irish Red Beer
Schell Pilsner Beer
Schmaltz's Alt Beer
Session Lager Beer
Sexual Chocolate Beer
Shakespeare Stout Beer
Shipyard IPA Beer
Siamese Twin Ale Beer
Small Craft Warning Beer
Snow Cap Beer
Southampton Double White Beer
Speedway Stout Beer
Sprecher Hefe Weiss Beer
St Niklaus Bock Bier Beer
Stone IPA Beer
Stone Ruination IPA Beer
Stone Smoked Porter Beer
Stoudt's Pils Beer
Supplication Beer
Surly Coffee Bender Beer
Surly Furious Beer
Survival '7-Grain' Stout Beer
Temptation Beer
Terrapin Rye Pale Ale Beer
The Abyss Beer
The Dissident Beer
The Duck-Rabbit Baltic Porter Beer
The Duck-Rabbit Milk Stout Beer
The Poet Beer
The Vine Beer
The Wise ESB Beer
Three Philosophers Beer
Titan IPA Beer
Tommyknocker Butthead Beer
Tricerahops Double IPA Beer
Tripel de Ripple Beer
Troegenator Double Bock Beer
Turbodog Beer
Two Jokers Double Wit Beer
Uff-Da Beer
Union Jack IPA Beer
Upstream Gueuze-Lambic Beer
Victory Golden Monkey Beer
Victory HopDevil Beer
Victory Prima Pils Beer
Victory Storm King Imperial Stout Beer
Wailing Wench Beer
West Coast India Pale Ale Beer
Wheat Wine Ale Beer
Widmer Hefeweizen Beer
Winter Humbug'r Beer
Wisconsin Belgian Red Beer
Wonder Bread Wonder bread is popular in the United States.
XS: Imperial India Pale Ale Beer
XS: Imperial Stout Beer
Yuengling Dark Brewed Porter Beer
Zonker Stout Beer



Geography »

Geography

Vast central plain, mountains in west, hills and low mountains in east; rugged mountains and broad river valleys in Alaska; rugged, volcanic topography in Hawaii. The peak of Mauna Kea (4207 m above sea level) on the island of Hawaii rises about 10200 m above the Pacific Ocean floor; by this measurement, it is the world's tallest mountain - higher than Mount Everest, which is recognized as the tallest mountain above sea level. - The World Factbook

Physiographic Data
Highest Point: Mount McKinley, Alaska: 6,194 m
Lowest Point: Badwater Basin, Death Valley, California: -86 m
Area: 9,161,966 sq km
Physiographic FeaturesTypeAsNotedIn
Appalachian Mountains Mountain System
Great Lakes Suite of Lakes
Rocky Mountains Mountain System

Information »

Climate

Mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains - The World Factbook

Location

North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and Mexico - The World Factbook

Data »

Particulars for United States of America:
Locale Type Nation

Data
Currency: US Dollar
Demonym: American
Government: Federal Republic
Motto: In God We Trust
Population: 308745538
Corruption Perceptions Index - 2014, Transparency International: 17


Map »

United States of America

United States of America

History »

History

Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. The two most traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the Civil War (1861-65), in which a northern Union of states defeated a secessionist Confederacy of 11 southern slave states, and the Great Depression of the 1930s, an economic downturn during which about a quarter of the labor force lost its jobs. Buoyed by victories in World Wars I and II and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the US remains the world's most powerful nation state. Since the end of World War II, the economy has achieved relatively steady growth, low unemployment and inflation, and rapid advances in technology. - The World Factbook

Creative Works »

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A Boy and His Dog (mezzobula) Mezzobula Harlan Ellison "A Boy and His Dog" survive in Post-apocalyptic America.
A History of American Magazines (book) History Book Frank Luther Mott
A History of the American People Book Paul Johnson History of the United States by a British historian
A House in the Uplands Book Erskine Caldwell
A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (book) History Book Samantha Power
Against the Day Book Thomas Pynchon
All the Pretty Horses Book Cormac McCarthy
All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories Book
E L Doctorow
America (song) Song Simon and Garfunkel And walked off To look for America.
America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink (book) History Book Kenneth M Stampp
American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870-1970 (book) History Book Thomas P Hughes
American Pastoral Book Philip Roth
Anagrams Novel Lorrie Moore
Annals of the Former World (book) Science Book John McPhee
Arrowsmith (book) Novel Sinclair Lewis
Articles of Confederation Constitutional document
Babbitt Book Sinclair Lewis
Before Adam Book
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Bethel Merriday Book
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Black is Best: The Riddle of Cassius Clay Book Jack Olsen
Blood Meridian Book Cormac McCarthy
Cass Timberlane Book
Sinclair Lewis
Cat's Cradle Book Kurt Vonnegut
Children of the Frost Short Story Collection
Jack London
Cigarettes Book Harry Matthews
Constitution of the United States Constitutional document Charles Pinckney Gouverneur Morris
Contact Book Carl Sagan
Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas Book
Mari Sandoz
Crime and Punishment in America (book) Treatise Elliott Currie
Cutter and Bone Book Newton Thornburg
Democracy Book Joan Didion
Dutch Courage and Other Stories Short Story Collection
Jack London
Elmer Gantry (book) Novel
Sinclair Lewis
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (book) History Book Gordon S Wood
Empire of the Summer Moon (book) History Book S C Gwynne
Everything is Illuminated Book Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything that Rises must Converge (short story collection) Short Story Collection Flannery O'Connor
Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (book) History Book Daniel K Richter
Falconer Book John Cheever
Falling Man Book Don DeLillo
Fear of Flying Book Erica Jong
Free Air Book
Sinclair Lewis
Get Shorty Book Elmore Leonard
Gideon Planish Book
Sinclair Lewis
Giles Goat Boy Book John Barth
Giovanni's Room Book James Baldwin
Give a Boy a Gun Book
Jack Olsen
Go Tell it on the Mountain Book James Baldwin
Gravity's Rainbow Book Thomas Pynchon
Hard Times: an Oral History of the Great Depression (book) History Book
Hearts of Three Book
Jack London
Hike and the Aeroplane Book
Sinclair Lewis
In Suspect Terrain (book) Science Book John McPhee
In Watermelon Sugar Book Richard Brautigan
Jayhawker Book
Sinclair Lewis
Junkie Book William S Burroughs
Kingsblood Royal Book
Sinclair Lewis
La Brava Book Elmore Leonard
Like Life Short Story Collection Lorrie Moore
Lost Language of Cranes Book David Leavitt
Love Medicine Book Louise Erdrich
Love of Life and Other Stories Book
Jack London
Main Street (book) Novel Sinclair Lewis The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and up not very differently would be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills.
Mantrap Book
Sinclair Lewis
Mao II Book Don DeLillo
Martin Eden Book Jack London
Michael Brother of Jerry Book
Jack London
Moon-Face and Other Stories Book
Jack London
Myra Breckinridge Book Gore Vidal
Neuromancer Book William Gibson
Nightwood Book Djuna Barnes
On the Makaloa Mat Book
Jack London
On the Road Book Jack Kerouac
Our Mr Wrenn Book
Sinclair Lewis
Passing Book Nella Larsen
Play It As It Lays Book Joan Didion
Possessing the Secret of Joy Book Alice Walker
Pricksongs and Descants Book Robert Coover
Rabbit is Rich Book John Updike
Rabbit Redux Book John Updike
Rabbit, Run Book John Updike
Reasons to Live Book Amy Hempel
Revolution and Other Essays Book
Jack London
Selected Short Stories Short Story Collection
Sinclair Lewis
Slaughter the Animals, Poison the Earth (book) Book
Jack Olsen
Slogum House Book
Mari Sandoz
Smoke Bellew Book
Jack London
Sometimes a Great Notion Book Ken Kesey
Stone Junction Book Jim Dodge
Stranger in a Strange Land Book Robert A Heinlein
Tales of the Fish Patrol Book
Jack London
Tangled Up in Blue (song) Song Bob Dylan
Tarzan of the Apes Book Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tennis As I Play It Book
Sinclair Lewis
The Abysmal Brute Book
Jack London
The Acorn Planter Book
Jack London
The American Scene Travelogue
Henry James No impression so promptly assaults the arriving visitor of the United States as that of the overwhelming preponderance, wherever he turns and twists, of the unmitigated "business-man" face, ranging through its various possibilities....
The Assassination Bureau Book
Jack London
The Assistant Book Bernard Malamud
The Black Athlete: A Shameful Story The myth of integration in American sports Book
Jack Olsen
The Black Dahlia Book James Ellroy
The Bluest Eye Book Toni Morrisson
The Chinese in America: A Narrative History Book
Iris Chang
The Corrections Book Jonathan Franzen
The Crosswinds of Freedom (The American Experiment, Vol 3) (book) History Book James MacGregor Burns
The Dead Father Book Donald Barthelme
The Dispossessed Book Ursula K Le Guin
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Book Tom Wolfe
The End of the Story Book Lydia Davis
The Era of Good Feelings (book) History Book George Dangerfield
The Faith of Men Book
Jack London
The Fan Man Book William Kotzwinkle
The Floating Opera Book John Barth
The Game Book
Jack London
The Girls on the Campus Book
Jack Olsen
The Glass Key Book Dashiell Hammett
The God-Seeker Book
Sinclair Lewis
The Graduate Book Charles Webb
The Hours Book Michael Cunningham
The House of Pride and Other Stories Book
Jack London
The Human Drift Book
Jack London
The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867 (book) History Book David M Potter Don E Fehrenbacher Comprehensive account of the coming of the Civil War. - The Journal of Southern History
The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (book) Ethnography Book Samuel G Freedman
The Innocents Book
Sinclair Lewis
The Iron Heel Book Jack London
The Job Book
Sinclair Lewis
The Kempton-Wace Letters Book
Jack London
The Kindly Ones Book Jonathan Littell
The Little Lady of the Big House Novel
Jack London
The Lottery Short Story Shirley Jackson
The Making of Americans Book Gertrude Stein
The Midnight Examiner Book William Kotzwinkle "Midnight Examiner" is wild ride through 1980s New York City with a tabloid editor.
The Music of Chance Book Paul Auster
The Mutiny of the Elsinore Book
Jack London
The Night-Born Book
Jack London
The Portrait of a Lady (book) Book Henry James
The Postman Always Rings Twice (book) Book James M Cain
The Prodigal Parents Book
Sinclair Lewis
The Professor's House Book Willa Cather
The Recognitions Book William Gaddis
The Red One Book
Jack London
The Running Man (King book) Novel
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The Scarlet Plague Book
Jack London
The Scorn of Women Book
Jack London
The Sea Wolf Book
Jack London
The Secret History Book Donna Tartt
The Shippng News Book E Annie Proulx
The Short-Timers (book) Book
The Social Transformation Of American Medicine (book) Ethnography Book Paul Starr
The Sportswriter Book Richard Ford
The Star Rover Book
Jack London
The Story Catcher Book
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The Strength of the Strong Book
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The Thirteen Clocks Book James Thurber
The Trail of the Hawk Book
Sinclair Lewis
The Turtles of Tasman Book
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The Vineyard of Liberty (American Experiment, Vol 1) (book) History Book James MacGregor Burns
The Willow Walk (short story) Short Story
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The Workshop of Democracy From the Emancipation Proclamation to the Era of the New Deal (book) History Book James MacGregor Burns
Theft: A Play In Four Acts Play
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them Book Joyce Carol Oates
These Were the Sioux Book
Mari Sandoz
Typical: Stories Book Padgett Powell
Ubik Book Philip K Dick
Uncle Tom's Cabin (book) Novel Harriet Beecher Stowe
Underworld (DeLillo novel) Book Don DeLillo
United States Bill of Rights Constitutional document James Madison
USA Book John Dos Passos
V Book Thomas Pynchon
Vandover and the Brute Book
Frank Norris
War of the Classes Book
Jack London
WE (Lindbergh book) Memoir Charles A Lindbergh
What I Loved Book Siri Hustvedt
When God Laughs and Other Stories Book
Jack London
White Noise Book Don DeLillo
Why Survive? Being Old In America (book) Treatise Robert N Butler
Willard and his Bowling Trophies Book Richard Brautigan
With Americans of Past and Present Days (book) Collection of Essays Jean Jules Jusserand
Wittgenstein's Mistress Book David Markson
Work of Art Book
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World So Wide Book
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