[156], On September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda terrorist hijackers flew passenger planes into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., killing nearly 3,000 people. 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[101] Most of these conflicts ended with the cession of Native American territory and their confinement to Indian reservations. [74], After its defeat at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, Britain signed a peace treaty. Graham Elliot left the show after six seasons. According to the Bureau's U.S. Population Clock, on January 28, 2021, the U.S. population had a net gain of one person every 100 seconds, or about 864 people per day. [140] A combination of court decisions and legislation, culminating in the Civil Rights Act of 1968, sought to end racial discrimination. [434] In 2017, there were 255,009,283 non-two wheel motor vehicles, or about 910 vehicles per 1,000 people. The United States is a highly developed country, and continuously ranks high in measures of socioeconomic performance. However, the Senate refused to approve this and did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles that established the League of Nations. [189] Overall, the United States receives more high-impact extreme weather incidents than any other country in the world. Likewise, nearly all nations host American diplomatic missions. [478] Americans drink three times as much coffee as tea. [408] Americans on average have more than twice as much living space per dwelling and per person as EU residents. GDP. population. Bugbear names are guttural and range from short to long. The recent decline, primarily among the age group 25 to 64, was largely due to record highs in the drug overdose and suicide rates; the country still has one of the highest suicide rates among wealthy countries. [216] White Americans of European ancestry, mostly German, Irish, English, Italian, Polish and French,[217] including White Hispanic and Latino Americans from Latin America, form the largest racial group, at 73.1% of the population. Major artistic movements such as the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning and the pop art of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein developed largely in the United States. [506] Baseball has been regarded as the U.S. national sport since the late 19th century, with Major League Baseball (MLB) being the top league. [304] Territories of the United States such as Puerto Rico do not have presidential electors, and so people in those territories cannot vote for the president. [180] The Mississippi–Missouri River, the world's fourth longest river system, runs mainly north–south through the heart of the country. [483] By the late 19th century, the Second New England School (sometimes referred to specifically as the "Boston Six") became prominent representatives of the classical tradition, of whom John Knowles Paine was the leading figure. In English, the word "American" rarely refers to topics or subjects not directly connected with the United States. Restaurant Names That Are Pop Culture References. [145], The 1970s and early 1980s saw the onset of stagflation. Country music developed in the 1920s, and rhythm and blues in the 1940s.[484]. [485][486][487] In the 1960s, Bob Dylan emerged from the folk revival to become one of America's most celebrated songwriters and James Brown led the development of funk. [263] The subject of uninsured and underinsured Americans is a major political issue. While a complete name unto itself, some parents who love Cora may want to use it as a short form for such names as Cordelia or Coraline. The Italian explorer was the first to postulate that the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern limit but were part of a previously unknown landmass. [219], About 82% of Americans live in urban areas, including suburbs;[178] about half of those reside in cities with populations over 50,000. Although little known at the time, Charles Ives's work of the 1910s established him as the first major U.S. composer in the classical tradition, while experimentalists such as Henry Cowell and John Cage created a distinctive American approach to classical composition. Documents such as the Mayflower Compact and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut established precedents for representative self-government and constitutionalism that would develop throughout the American colonies. 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. Colombia is traditionally considered by the United States as its most loyal ally in South America. [240] The survey also reported that 22.8% of Americans described themselves as agnostic, atheist or simply having no religion—up from 8.2% in 1990. [194], There are 62 national parks and hundreds of other federally managed parks, forests, and wilderness areas. [105] The U.S. Virgin Islands were purchased from Denmark in 1917. [176], The United States is the world's third- or fourth-largest nation by total area (land and water), ranking behind Russia and Canada and nearly equal to China. The ARPANET was developed in the 1960s to meet Defense Department requirements, and became the first of a series of networks which evolved into the Internet. [122][123] Although the nation lost around 400,000 military personnel,[124] it emerged relatively undamaged from the war with even greater economic and military influence. [375] No executions took place from 1967 to 1977, owing in part to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down the practice. [334] Both non-resident citizens and Green Card holders living abroad are taxed on their income irrespective of where they live or where their income is earned. In 2010, the total U.S. trade deficit was $635 billion. [146][147] The late 1980s brought a "thaw" in relations with the Soviet Union, and its collapse in 1991 finally ended the Cold War. ", "African-American Economic Gains Reversed By Great Recession", "Long Time Coming: Why Health Reform Finally Passed", "Donald Trump is elected president of the United States", "Biden defeats Trump for White House, Say's time to heal", "Trump Supporters Storm U.S. Capitol, Clash with Police", "State Area Measurements and Internal Point Coordinates—Geography—U.S. Settlers traded for food and animal pelts; natives for guns, tools and other European goods. Among the D.C. mayor and the five territorial governors, there are three Democrats, one Republican, and one New Progressive.[317]. [395] The United States leads the world in scientific research papers and impact factor. 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[152], After the Cold War, the conflict in the Middle East triggered a crisis in 1990, when Iraq invaded and annexed Kuwait, an ally of the United States. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson took a leading diplomatic role at the Paris Peace Conference and advocated strongly for the U.S. to join the League of Nations. [362] More than 40% of the world's 14,000 nuclear weapons are held by the United States.[362]. Hydra are serpentine creatures with multiple heads. In the visual arts, the Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century movement in the tradition of European naturalism. Methods for producing interchangeable parts were developed by the U.S. War Department by the Federal Armories during the first half of the 19th century. However, membership also fell among those who identified with a specific religious group. Amtrak is the main publicly owned passenger railroad service in the United States, providing service in 46 states and the District of Columbia. [339], During fiscal year 2012, the federal government spent $3.54 trillion on a budget or cash basis. The ensuing war would become the deadliest military conflict in American history, resulting in the deaths of approximately 618,000 soldiers as well as many civilians. 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George Washington, who had led the Continental Army to victory, was the first president elected under the new constitution. "The Unkillable Dream of the Great American Novel: "Why McDonald's in France Doesn't Feel Like Fast Food", "When Was the First Drive-Thru Restaurant Created? Aside from web portals and search engines, the most popular websites are Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, and Twitter. John Rawls and Robert Nozick also led a revival of political philosophy. [385], In 2009, the private sector was estimated to constitute 86.4% of the economy. In 2017, the United States had the lowest life expectancy among Japan, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and seven nations in western Europe. [392][393], The United States has been a leader in technological innovation since the late 19th century and scientific research since the mid-20th century. In the North, it energized multiple social reform movements, including abolitionism;[80] in the South, Methodists and Baptists proselytized among slave populations. Advancements by American microprocessor companies such as Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel, along with both computer software and hardware companies such as Adobe Systems, Apple Inc., IBM, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems, created and popularized the personal computer. [75] Nationalists led the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in writing the United States Constitution, ratified in state conventions in 1788. [59][60], European settlers also began trafficking of African slaves into Colonial America via the transatlantic slave trade. [47][48] The continent's first elected legislative assembly, Virginia's House of Burgesses, was founded in 1619. [186], The United States, with its large size and geographic variety, includes most climate types. Best Latin Restaurants in Tulsa: See Tripadvisor traveler reviews of Latin Restaurants in Tulsa. [348] From 1940 until 1973, conscription was mandatory even during peacetime. Russian America once spanned much of the present-day state of Alaska. [239] In 2014, 5.9% of the U.S. adult population claimed a non-Christian religion. [179] The Appalachian Mountains divide the eastern seaboard from the Great Lakes and the grasslands of the Midwest. During the war, the United States was one of the "Four Powers"[121] who met to plan the postwar world, along with Britain, the Soviet Union, and China. [315], In the 117th United States Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate are narrowly controlled by the Democratic Party. Other languages spoken at home by one million people or more include Chinese (2.8 million), Tagalog (1.6 million), Vietnamese (1.4 million), French (1.3 million), Korean (1.1 million), and German (1 million). The Constitution has been amended 27 times;[293] the first ten amendments, which make up the Bill of Rights, and the Fourteenth Amendment form the central basis of Americans' individual rights. The principle of judicial review, not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, was established by the Supreme Court in Marbury v. Madison (1803)[294] in a decision handed down by Chief Justice John Marshall.[295]. [223] The total fertility rate was 1820.5 births per 1000 women in 2016. In American political culture, the center-right Republican Party is considered "conservative" and the center-left Democratic Party is considered "liberal". [117], At first effectively neutral during World War II, the United States began supplying materiel to the Allies in March 1941 through the Lend-Lease program. [410], Wealth, like income and taxes, is highly concentrated; the richest 10% of the adult population possess 72% of the country's household wealth, while the bottom half possess only 2%. [120] The United States thus left its vast Asian colony, the Philippines, isolated and fighting a losing struggle against Japanese invasion and occupation. [227] Three states and four U.S. territories have recognized local or indigenous languages in addition to English, including Hawaii (Hawaiian),[228] Alaska (twenty Native languages),[h][229] South Dakota (Sioux),[230] American Samoa (Samoan), Puerto Rico (Spanish), Guam (Chamorro), and the Northern Mariana Islands (Carolinian and Chamorro). [41] 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. [184] At an elevation of 20,310 feet (6,190.5 m), Alaska's Denali is the highest peak in the country and in North America. [403] This, in turn, led to the establishment of many new technology companies and regions around the country such as Silicon Valley in California. Indeed, when the Union ultimately won the war in April 1865, each of the states in the defeated South was required to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, which prohibited slavery except as penal labor. Interests", "Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress", "U.S.–South Korea Relations: Issues for Congress", "The Untapped Potential of the US-Colombia Partnership", "How Progressive is the U.S. Federal Tax System? [475] Characteristic dishes such as apple pie, fried chicken, pizza, hamburgers, and hot dogs derive from the recipes of various immigrants. ^.^ [404], Accounting for 4.24% of the global population, Americans collectively possess 29.4% of the world's total wealth, the largest percentage of any country. Native Americans were also often at war with neighboring tribes and European settlers. It accounts for approximately a quarter of global GDP and is the world's largest economy by GDP at market exchange rates. [37] The city-state of Cahokia is the largest, most complex pre-Columbian archaeological site in the modern-day United States. [92] In 1869, a new Peace Policy nominally promised to protect Native Americans from abuses, avoid further war, and secure their eventual U.S. citizenship. [21][22] In 1538, the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator used the name "America" on his own world map, applying it to the entire Western Hemisphere. In 2020 the median age of the United States population was 38.5 years. [127][128] The United States eventually developed the first nuclear weapons and used them on Japan in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945; the Japanese surrendered on September 2, ending World War II. [398] The latter led to emergence of the worldwide entertainment industry. [438], The United States has the largest rail transport network size of any country in the world with a system length of 125,828 miles, nearly all standard gauge. [508] In soccer (a sport that has gained a footing in the United States since the mid-1990s), the country hosted the 1994 FIFA World Cup, the men's national soccer team qualified for ten World Cups and the women's team has won the FIFA Women's World Cup four times; Major League Soccer is the sport's highest league in the United States (featuring 23 American and three Canadian teams). Nevertheless, as casualties mounted after 1863 and Lincoln delivered his Emancipation Proclamation, the main purpose of the war from the Union's viewpoint became the abolition of slavery. While most major U.S. sports such as baseball and American football have evolved out of European practices, basketball, volleyball, skateboarding, and snowboarding are American inventions, some of which have become popular worldwide. [125], The United States played a leading role in the Bretton Woods and Yalta conferences, which signed agreements on new international financial institutions and Europe's postwar reorganization. ", "Biden announces return to global climate accord, new curbs on U.S. oil industry", "Historical Census Statistics On Population Totals By Race, 1790 to 1990, and By Hispanic Origin, 1970 to 1990, For Large Cities And Other Urban Places In The United States", "Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States", "Table 52. Most of Alaska is subarctic or polar. The District of Columbia and the five major U.S. territories do not have senators. Simply click again to get 10 new random names. The Bill of Rights, forbidding federal restriction of personal freedoms and guaranteeing a range of legal protections, was adopted in 1791. [455] Whether this perception is accurate has been a topic of debate. Anniversary symbols. [96] They also occasionally experienced vigilante violence, including lynching. 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. [30], 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, some evidence suggests an even earlier date of arrival. Click here to find out more! [338] For 2018, the effective tax rate for the wealthiest 400 households was 23%, compared to 24.2% for the bottom half of U.S. The United States has an established structure of foreign relations. [76], 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 slave population. The climate is arid in the Great Basin, desert in the Southwest, Mediterranean in coastal California, and oceanic in coastal Oregon and Washington and southern Alaska. [i][309][306], The United States has operated under a two-party system for most of its history. [497] In more recent times, directors such as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and James Cameron have gained renown for their blockbuster films, often characterized by high production costs and earnings. This generator comes up with creative restaurant names. [517] Americans listen to radio programming, also largely commercial, on average just over two-and-a-half hours a day. [27], The second draft of the Articles of Confederation, prepared by John Dickinson and completed no later than June 17, 1776, declared "The name of this Confederation shall be the 'United States of America'. Aaron Copland and George Gershwin—eventually furthered by Leonard Bernstein—developed a new synthesis of popular and classical music. The national capital is Washington, D.C., and the most populous city is New York City. The "red states" of the South and parts of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains are relatively conservative. [41][42] Douglas H. Ubelaker of the Smithsonian Institution estimated that there was a population of 92,916 in the south Atlantic states and a population of 473,616 in the Gulf states,[43] but most academics regard this figure as too low. [519] NPR was incorporated in February 1970 under the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967; its television counterpart, PBS, was created by the same legislation. By contrast, religion plays the least important role in New England and in the Western United States. [515][516], The four major broadcasters in the U.S. are the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), American Broadcasting Company (ABC), and Fox Broadcasting Company (FOX). 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