The United States (U.S. or US), officially the United States of America (U.S.A or USA) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, 326 Indian reservations, and some minor possessions. At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million square kilometers), it is the world’s third- or fourth-largest country by total area. The United States shares significant land borders with Canada to the north and Mexico to the south as well as limited maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, and Russia. With a population of more than 331 million people, it is the third most populous country in the world. The national capital is Washington, D.C., and the most populous city is New York City.
Paleo-Indians migrated from Siberia to the North American mainland at least 12,000 years ago, and European colonization began in the 16th century. The United States emerged from the thirteen British colonies established along the East Coast. Disputes with Great Britain over taxation and political representation led to the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), which established the nation’s independence. In the late 18th century, the U.S. began expanding across North America, gradually obtaining new territories, sometimes through war, frequently displacing Native Americans, and admitting new states; by 1848, the United States spanned the continent. Slavery was legal in the southern United States until the second half of the 19th century, when the American Civil War led to its abolition. The Spanish–American War and World War I established the U.S. as a world power, a status confirmed by the outcome of World War II. During the Cold War, the United States fought the Korean War and the Vietnam War but avoided direct military conflict with the Soviet Union. The two superpowers competed in the Space Race, culminating in the 1969 spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. The Soviet Union’s dissolution in 1991 ended the Cold War, leaving the United States as the world’s sole superpower.
The United States is a federal republic and a representative democracy with three separate branches of government, including a bicameral legislature. It is a founding member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States, NATO, and other international organizations. It is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. Considered a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities, its population has been profoundly shaped by centuries of immigration. The United States ranks high in international measures of economic freedom, quality of life, education, and human rights; it has low levels of perceived corruption. However, the country has been criticized for inequality related to race, wealth, and income; use of capital punishment; high incarceration rates; and lack of universal health care.
The United States is a highly developed country, accounts for approximately a quarter of global GDP, and is the world’s largest economy by GDP at market exchange rates. By value, the United States is the world’s largest importer and second-largest exporter of goods. Although its population is only 4.2% of the world’s total, it holds 29.4% of the total wealth in the world, the largest share held by any country. Making up more than a third of global military spending, it is the foremost military power in the world and internationally a leading political, cultural, and scientific force. (Wikipedia)
Gold Mine in Victor, Colorado around 1900.Young Cigarmakers in Englahardt & Co., Tampa, Fla. The boys looked under 14 years old. 1909.Loggers at Russell Camp, Aroostook County, Maine, ca. 1900A River packet, Mobile, Alabama ca. 1906Royal St., looking south from St. Francis St, Mobile, Ala. between 1905 – 1915Tahoma and Bailey Gatzert (sternwheelers) at the Willamette River waterfront at Portland, Oregon ca 1900.12th Street Bascule Bridge.Chicago circa 1900Railroad depot at Gold Hill – Gold Hill, Oregon – ca. 1900Sidewalk scene on a street in St. Louis, ca. 1900sInterior view of dining hall, decorated for the holidays, with students sitting at tables at the Tuskegee Institute, ca. 1902.Tourists and guides picnicking in Yellowstone Park, 1903.Getting ready to hoist a mounted gun, in Washington Navy Yard, 1903.Chinatown in San Francisco, Cal. 1900Workers building the Broadway subway line under Central Park, 1901.Newsies at Skeeter’s Branch, St. Louis, Missouri, May 9, 1910.A boy on stilts stands in front of the produce stands in front of the F.J. Voepel Market, St. Louis, Missouri, 1906The Great Baltimore Fire in 1904Pushcart market in the Italian neighborhood, New York City, early 1900’s.New York Central Railroad. Bronx, New York. 1905Barnum and Bailey Circus Parade, Sheldon, Iowa. 1909Plains, Kansas in early 1900s.The Cliff House, San Francisco, California. 1900Infants working in Avondale Mills, Birmingham, Alabama, 1910.An empty cart for distributing beer in front of a bar on a street, St. Louis, Missouri. ca. 1900sDelaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad yards. Scranton, Pennsylvania, circa 1900.Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, Cleveland, Ohio. ca. 1900Unloading bananas Mobile, Alabama ca. 1900Ellicott Square Building. Buffalo, N.Y., circa 1900.Airshaft of a dumbbell tenement, New York City, taken from the roof, ca. 1900.Hundreds of wooden barrels covering the docks at the resin yards, Savannah, Ga., 1903.The Saint Louis, Mo., waterfront crowded with steamboats at the start of President William H. Taft’s inspection trip down the Mississippi River, Oct. 1909.Two officials of the New York City Tenement House Department inspect a cluttered basement living room, ca. 1900.Residents in front of a dilapidated frame house in Kansas City, ca. 1900.Children play ball in the street in front of typical housing with five rooms per family for $10 to $12 per month. San Francisco, ca. 1900.Shoppers at the outdoor food market, 7th Street at Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.. Washington, D.C. ca. 1900.Three gentlemen pass the time on a park bench in San Jacinto Plaza, El Paso, Tex., 1906.Treasury Department official, surrounded by packages of newly minted currency, counting and wrapping dollar bills. Washington, D.C., 1907.Pedestrians on the upper deck promenade of Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, ca. 1910Easter morning, 1900. New York City’s Fifth Avenue bustling with horse-drawn traffic and two motor cars.The Eighth Avenue trolley, New York City, shar- ing the street with horse-drawn produce wagon and an open automobile. Downtown, looking north. 1904.The ruins of San Francisco, still smoldering after the 1906 earthquake, taken from the tower of the Union Ferry Building. Market Street between Sacramento and Third Streets.Water Street and Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, under 20 inches of water during the flood of March 1907.Broughton Street, looking east. Savannah, Georgia, circa 1905.Commercial Place, Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1905.Boston Harbor and waterfront. Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1906.Thirty-eighth Street West from Fifth Avenue, New York. 1900Detroit Iron and Steel Co., Detroit, Mich. 1903Steamer “City of Cleveland” 1908Junction of Main and Delaware Streets.Kansas City, Missouri, circa 1906.Point Bridge and coal barges.Pittsburgh, Pa. circa 1900.The sidewheeler Cincinnati passing under the Roebling Suspension Bridge. Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1906.Great Northern elevator and shipping, Buffalo, N.Y. 1900
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