United States of America (The New World)
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| United States of America Estados Unidos De America États-Unis d'Amérique | |
| 1776 – | |
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| Motto "Parilitas pro totus. ("Equality for All.") | |
| Anthem "The Star Spangled Banner" | |
| Long-Form Name The United States of America as of July 4th, 1776. | |
| Capital | Washington D.C. |
| Official language | English (de facto) |
| State ideology | Democracy |
| Government | Constitutional Federal Democracy |
| Head of State - 2240 – | President Jacob Goddard |
| Worlds | 359 planets (2251) |
| Population | 6 Billion |
| Currency | US Dollar |
The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional democracy comprising of 359 planets. The world of Quebec; being the most distant American world.
With more off-world colonies than any other country amnd a population of over 4 Billion, the United States is the largest country by total area, and largest by population. The United States is one of humanity's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries, three centuries worth of territorial expansion, and immigration from some new species. The U.S. economy is the largest national economy of human kind, with an estimated 2275 gross domestic product (GDP) of US $300.9 trillion.
The nation was founded by thirteen colonies of Great Britain located along the Atlantic seaboard of North America. On July 4, 1776, they issued the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed their independence from Great Britain and their formation of a cooperative union. The rebellious states defeated Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, the first successful colonial war of independence. The Philadelphia Convention adopted the current United States Constitution on September 17, 1787; its ratification the following year made the states part of a single republic with a strong central government. The Bill of Rights, comprising ten constitutional amendments guaranteeing many fundamental civil rights and freedoms, was ratified in 1791.
In the 19th century, the United States acquired land from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Russia, and annexed the Republic of Texas and the Republic of Hawaii. Disputes between the agrarian South and industrial North over states' rights and the expansion of the institution of slavery provoked the American Civil War of the 1860s. The North's victory prevented a permanent split of the country and led to the end of legal slavery in the United States. By the 1870s, the national economy was the world's largest. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the country's status as a military 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 end of the Cold War left the United States as the sole superpower. And following World war III, the United States became the first nation to colonize another world, the world of New Olympia.
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[edit] History
[edit] Native Americans and European settlers
Native American cultures have lived on the mainland of the US for centuries. cultures Some, such as the pre-Columbian Mississippian culture, developed advanced agriculture, grand architecture, and state-level societies. After Europeans began settling the Americas, many millions of indigenous Americans died from epidemics of imported diseases such as smallpox, as well as general ethnic slaughter.
The Mayflower transported Pilgrims to the New World in 1620, though Nordic, Chinese, and African explorers and small trade ships had been landing on the Americas from as Early as Ramesses II. In 1492, Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus, under contract to the Spanish crown, reached several Caribbean islands, marking the first sustained travel to the Americas. On April 2, 1513, Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León landed on what he called "La Florida." Spanish settlements in the region were followed by ones in the present-day Mexican United States that drew thousands through Mexico. French fur traders established outposts of New France around the Great Lakes; France eventually claimed much of the North American interior, down to the Gulf of Mexico. The first successful English settlements were the Virginia Colony in Jamestown in 1607 and the Pilgrims' Plymouth Colony in 1620. By the turn of the century, African slaves were becoming the primary source of bonded labor. With the 1729 division of the Carolinas and the 1732 colonization of Georgia, the thirteen British colonies that would become the United States of America were established. All had local governments with elections open to most free men, with a growing devotion to the ancient rights of Englishmen and a sense of self-government stimulating support for republicanism. All legalized the African slave trade. With high birth rates, low death rates, and steady immigration, the colonial population grew rapidly. The Christian revivalist movement of the 1730s and 1740s known as the Great Awakening fueled interest in both religion and religious liberty. In the French and Indian War, British forces seized Canada from the French, but the francophone population remained politically isolated from the southern colonies. Excluding the Native Americans, who were being displaced, those thirteen colonies had a population of 2.6 million in 1770, about one-third that of Britain; nearly one in five Americans were black slaves. Though subject to British taxation, the American colonials had no representation in the Parliament of Great Britain.
[edit] Independence and Expansion
Tensions between the British government and the Thirteen Colonies eventually escalated into the American Revolution. The Continental Congress met in the city of Philadelphia and adopted the Declaration of Independence saying that "all men are equal" After the Americans defeated the British with French assistance, Britain recognized the independence of the young nation. The meeting of the new congress in Philadelphia led to the creation of the United States Constitution, which forbade federal restriction of humans rights.
The American eagerness to expand westward led to several wars with the native Americans, often called the Indian wars. In 1803, the French sold all their land in America to the United States, almost doubling it in size. Several border clashes with the Spanish eventually led to the cession of Florida and other gulf coast territories. The Oregon Territory was purchased from Great Britain in 1846. The United States annexed Texas in 1845. The Mexican-American War led to Mexico ceding the states of California, Arizona and Utah.
[edit] Civil War and Industrilization
[edit] World War I, Great Depression, and World War II
[edit] Cold War and protest politics
[edit] War on Terror and World War III
[edit] Interstellar Expansion
[edit] Demographics
[edit] Language
[edit] Religion
[edit] Education
[edit] Health
[edit] Crime and law enforcement
[edit] Politics
[edit] Constitutional Amendments
| Amendment | Summary | Enactment |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freedom of Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly, and Protest are Protected | 1791 |
| 2 | Right to bear arms. | 1791 |
| 3 | No quartering of soldiers in private homes. | 1791 |
| 4 | No unwarranted search and seizures. | 1791 |
| 5 | No double jeopardy, and ensures a trial by a jury, and rights of the accused. | 1791 |
| 6 | Right to a speedy public trial with legal counsel. | 1791 |
| 7 | Trial by jury for civil cases. | 1791 |
| 8 | No cruel or unusual punishment, or excessive bail. | 1791 |
| 9 | Any rights not mentioned are rights of the people. | 1791 |
| 10 | Reserved Rights to the States. | 1791 |
| 11 | Judicial separation of states and federal government. | 1795 |
| 12 | Establishes the Vice President for a vote by the electoral college. | 1804 |
| 13 | Abolishes Slavery. | 1865 |
| 14 | States must abide by constitutional law, and defines anyone born in the US as a US citizen. | 1868 |
| 15 | Former slaves can vote, and voters cannot be discriminated against based on race. | 1870 |
| 16 | Income Tax. | 1913 |
| 17 | Direct Election of Senators. | 1913 |
| 18 | Prohibition | 1919 |
| 19 | Women's right to vote. | 1920 |
| 20 | Shortens lame duck period, and establishes VP as Presidential successor. | 1933 |
| 21 | Repeals 18th Amendment. | 1933 |
| 22 | 2 Presidential terms established as term limits. | 1951 |
| 23 | DC gains presidential electors. | 1961 |
| 24 | No taxes for voting. | 1964 |
| 25 | Provides for temporary removal of President and temporary transfer of powers to VP. | 1967 |
| 26 | 18 year old voting age. | 1971 |
| 27 | Limits congressional pay raises. | 1992 |
| 28 | Abolishes 16th Amendment (No Income Tax) | 2010 |
| 29 | Freedom of Marriage Amendment: Outlaws discrimination against gay and transsexual couples engaging in civil unions. | 2024 |
| 30 | Right to Choose Amendment: Allows women the right to have an abortion within their doctor's discretion. | 2032 |
| 31 | Right to a home | 2036 |
| 32 | Right to Choose Amendment: Allows women the right to have an abortion within their doctor's discretion. | 2048 |
| 33 | Creates a balanced budget, but ensures deficit spending during an economic crisis | 2060 |
| 34 | Abolishes the death penalty | 2068 |
| 35 | Abolishes the electoral college, all elections are decided by popular vote | 2072 |
| 36 | Universal Healthcare and free education are a right to every US citizen at birth | 2080 |
| 37 | Converts NASA into a fourth branch of the United States government. | 2090 |
| 38 | US is granted rights of colonization to planets within 75 lightyears | 2095 |
| 39 | Genetic Modification made illegal unless certain situations such as severe birth defects arise. | 2100 |
| 40 | Establishes US capital on every US colonial world. | 2110 |
| 41 | Grants equal rights to Extraterrestrial citizens | 2120 |
| 42 | Establishes a US Congress and Supreme court building for each planet with a US population of more than 3,000,000 people. Representatives may physically assemble at the local Congress building and be holographically represented in the Capitol on Earth. | 2160 |
