U.S.A.
(The United States of America)
The United States of America is a federal contitutional republic comprising fifty states and
federal disrict.The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Pacific
and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the south and Mexico to the north .The state
of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent,with Canada to its east and Russia to the west
across the Bering Strait, and the mid-Pacific.The United States also possesses several
territories, or insular areas,scattered around the Caribbean and Pacific.At 3,79 million
square miles ( 9,83million square kilometres) and with over 300 million people, the United
States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and third largest by land area and by
population. TheUnited States is one of the world´s most ettnically diverse nations, the product
of large-scale immigration from many countries.The nation was founded by thriteen colonies
of Gread Britain located along the Alantic seaboard.Proclaiming themselves states, they
issued the Decralion of Independence on July 4, 1776.The rebellious states defeated Britain
in the Britain in the American Revolutionary War, the first successful colonial war of
independence. A federal convention adopted the current United States constitution on
September 17,1787,its ratification the following year made the states of a single republic.
The Bill of Rights comprising ten contitutional amendments, was ratified in 1791.
In the nineteenth century , the United States acquired land from France,Spain, Great Britan,
Mexico and Russia, and annexed the
Republic of Texas and the Republic of
Hawaii. Disputes
between the agraian South and indstrial
North over states rights and the
expansion of the
institution of slavery provoked the
american Civil War of the 1860s.The
North´s victory
preveted a permanent split of the
country and led to the end of slavery
in the United States.
The Spanish-American War and World
War confirned the nation´s status as a miliary power.
In 1945,the United States emerged from World
War II as the first country with nuclear weapons ,
a permanent member of the United Nations
Security Council, and a founding member of
NATO. The United States entered the
post-Cold War era as the only remaining
superpower and a dominant economic,
political and cultural force in the world.
History
The indigeous peoples of the U.S. mailand,including
Alaska migrated from Asia . They begam arriving at least 12,000 and as many as 40,000years ago
Geveral indigenous communteies in the pre –Columbian bra developed advanced agriculture
greand architecture , and state –level societies. European explorer Christopher Columbus arrived
at Puerto Rico on October 11,1492 ,making tirst contact with the Native Americans . In the years
that fallowed, the majority of the Native American population was killed by epidemics of Eurasian
diseases.
Food
Maistream American culinary arts are simalar to those in other Western countries.
Wheat is the primary cereal again. Traditional American cuisine uses ingredients as
turkey whitetailed deer venison , potatoes , sweet potatoes, corn , squash and maple
syrup, indigenous foods employed by Native Americans and early European settlers .
Show-cooked pork and beef barbecue, crab cakes, potato chips and chocolate
chip cookies are distinctively American styles.Characteristic dishes such as apple
pie, fried chicken, pizza, hamburgers and hot dogs derrive from the recipes of
various immigrants. Americans generally prefer coffe to tea .Marketing by U.S.
industries is largely resposible for making orange juice and milk ubiquitous
breakfast beverages.American´s peoples eating very a lot of fast food.
61% peoples have got excess weight.
Animals
als
In American lives popular animals.
( Red Wolf, Giant Kangaroo Rat, Gray Bat, Florida Mause, Idaho Ground Squirrel)
Idaho Ground Squirrel
States U.S.A.
Alabama, Alaska ,Arizona, Arkansas, California,Colorado,Connecticut,Delaware,Florida,
Georgia,Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana,Iowa,Kansas,Kentucky,Louisiana,Maine,Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan,Minnesota, Minnesota, Mississippi,Missouri, Montana, Nebraska,
Nevada, New Hampshine, New Jearsey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North
Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhone Island ,South Carolina, South
Dakota,Tennessee,Texas, Utah, Vemont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin,
Wyoming.
Area: 9,826 630 km
Population : 300 milion
National language : English
Head of state President George Busch
Capital city :Washington D.C
Largest city: New York City
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