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The United States of America, also known as the United States, the U.S., the U.S.A., the U.S. of A, the States, and America, is a country in North America. A federal republic, the United States shares land borders with Canada and Mexico, and extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Its capital is Washington, D.C.
The present-day continental United States has been inhabited for at least 15,000 years by Native Americans. After 16th-century European exploration and settlement, the English established new colonies, and gained control of others, in the eastern portion of the continent in the 17th and early 18th centuries. On 4 July 1776, at war with Britain over fair governance, thirteen of these colonies declared their independence; in 1783, the war ended in British acceptance of the new nation. Since then, the country has more than quadrupled in size: it now consists of 50 states, one federal district, and a number of overseas territories.
At over 3.7 million square miles (over 9.1 million km²), the U.S. is the third largest country by area. It is also the world's third most populous nation, with nearly 300 million people.
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Wherever a person is standing in the state of Michigan in the United States, they are within 85 miles of one of the Great Lakes #omgfacts
MrBluePepper (Mr. Pepper) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:55:17 -0000
Wherever a person is standing in the state of Michigan in the United States, they are within 85 miles of one of the Great Lakes #omgfacts
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@camcheline have you seen United States of Tara?
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A Biography of America - Includes key events, maps, video transcripts, and related links for each era in American history.
A Century in Review - Student-created site offers a graphical overview of each decade in the 20th century.
America's Library - Discover the stories of America's past. Meet amazing Americans from the past and present, explore the states, and read about everyday life.
America's Story - Presented by the Library of Congress, a site with information about American people, historical events, and each of the 50 states.
America's West - Explore information on the history and development of the American West.
Meta Description: [ The History and Development of the American West. Cowboys and Indians, Cody, western information, western products ]
American Experience - Includes features on a range of people and events in American history from Hawaii's last queen to Joe DiMaggio, from World War I to Vietnam. From PBS.
Meta Description: [ Companion to the PBS history series AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, this site includes features on a range of people and events in American history from Hawaii's last queen to Joe DiMaggio, from World War I to Vietnam. ]
American Experience: Mount Rushmore - An interactive look at how this enormous monument was built and who built it.
Meta Description: [ The story of a temperamental artist and the creation of the world's largest piece of sculpture. ]
American Indian Kids - History of Native Americans for kids, ages 6-10. Emphasizes Indian family and village lifestyles.
American Memory from the Library of Congress - Gateway to source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.
American Slave Voices - Traces slavery in America from its earliest origins to post-Emancipation. Includes links to primary sources and personal slave accounts.
Andy's American History Worksheets - Middle school topics in American history with rhyming couplets on the front and questions on the back.
AP U.S. History Decade Profiles - Contains detailed review guides for preparing for the Advanced Placement United States History Exam. Arranged by decades, and available in PDF and HTML formats.
Civil Rights Events, Strategies, and Forces - Captures several milestones, personalities, and influences that helped civil rights in America.
Meta Description: [ Learn more about Black History and Black History Month.Find all information on Black History and Black History Month at BlackHistoryAmerica.com ]
Colonial Kids - This celebration of life in the 1700s tells all about life in Colonial America. Includes interviews, games, video excerpts, photographs, and other activities.
Colonial Williamsburg - Experience Colonial Life by exploring the trades, politics, and other aspects of 18th-century living. Browse the Colonial Dateline highlighting events from 1750-1783.
Meta Description: [ Includes colonial people, life, and buildings, teacher resources, podcasts, trades, clothing, gardens, Electronic Field Trips, study tours, Fifes and Drums. ]
Exploring Maryland's Roots - Explore the shores, build a plantation, and meet the people of early Maryland in this interactive website by Maryland Public Television.
Federal Writers' Project - Excerpts from interviews with about a dozen men and women who weathered the Great Depression and the difficult years of the 1930s.
Freedom: A History of US - A PBS series with sixteen webisodes about freedom in the United States, and dangers to freedom in the nation's history.
Meta Description: [ See why the promise of freedom has attracted millions of people from all over the world to come to America. ]
From Revolution to Reconstruction - Contains outlines related to American history and culture, primary source materials, essays, biographies and presidential information.
Meta Description: [ From Revolution to Reconstruction and what happened afterwards. A project on American History containing outlines of American History & Culture, sourcematerials, essays, biographies, presidential information ]
Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories - An interactive online tour of exhibitions at the Oakland Museum of California.
Meta Description: [ This site preserves and supplements four major exhibitions celebrating the gold rush sesquicentennial, at the Oakland Museum of California. ]
Great American Speeches - Great political speeches from the 20th century. For students of speech and American History.
Meta Description: [ This Web site, provided by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), is home to more than 350 television show companion sites in addition to Web-original sites. PBS Online hosts interactive content for everyone including kids, parents, educators, and the general audience. ]
History Haven - Provides an overview of American History from colonial times through the Reagan years. Some chapters include interactive quizzes.
Kid's History - Provides help with American history projects. Includes games, costume help, library, crafts, and links.
Meta Description: [ A resource for Kids and American History ]
Liberty Bell Museum - Features virtual exhibit of a private collection of memorabilia, relics and souvenirs, gathered over a 20 year period. Includes gift shop.
Meta Description: [ Liberty Bell Museum is a collection of Liberty Bell memorabilia, souvenirs, history and resources. ]
Mom's Historical Costumes - A theatrical middle-school social studies teacher models her over a dozen costumes relating to various periods of American history. Includes colonial garb, multicultural, and military dress.
Mrs. Doss's History Web - Directory of Bible and American history links.
Meta Description: [ This site provides useful information and links to help high school students in the study of American History, U.S. History, and Bible History. ]
NARA Exhibit Hall - Features historic documents from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
National Museum of American History - Click on different exhibits to find related bits and pieces of historical trivia.
Meta Description: [ The National Museum of American History is one of the Smithsonian Institution museums located on The Mall in Washington DC. ]
Nebraska Studies.org - Learn all about Nebraska's history and its geography.
Meta Description: [ Nebraskastudies.org is a resource for teacher, students and adults interested in Nebraska, its history, geography, culture and people. We feature lesson plans, video, and primary source historical documents. ]
New Perspectives on The West - Provides an illustrated introduction to the people, places, and events for which America's western frontier is known. From PBS.
Meta Description: [ THE WEST offers the opportunity to take a guided tour through the history of the American West, following in the footsteps of filmmakers Ken Burns and Stephen Ives, or to strike out across this historical landscape on one's own. ]
Old Sturbridge Village - The museum re-creates the daily work activities and community celebrations of a rural 19th-century town in authentic living history fashion.
Ongoing Tales Salute to America - Features lyrics of patriotic songs, the Pledge of Allegiance, and other important documents.
Meta Description: [ Patriotic songs, the pledge of allegiance, and other important documents provide a fun way for children to learn some American history. ]
Pioneers - Information about pioneers, wagon trains, and life on the trail in the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Meta Description: [ educational page about the pioneers of the 1800s in the United States and how they traveled to the frontiers and began new lives ]
Slave Ship Trouvadore - Describes a shipwreck and the survival of crewmen and Africans, who were being transported to an area near the Bahamas to be used as slaves. Page includes past history, cultural influences, and mysteries about the incident.
Meta Description: [ Slave Ship Trouvadore ]
Slavery in New England - Interactive site designed to help middle school students understand the condition of African slaves in New England.
SPNEA: Whiz Kids - Take fun history tests from 1600-1900's. Also includes recipes by the century.
Meta Description: [ The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) is a
museum of cultural history that preserves, interprets, and collects buildings, landscapes,and objects
reflecting New England life from the 17th century to the present, for the enjoyment and benefit of all. ]
Stand Up For Your Rights - Offers an overview of the struggles for religious freedom, women's rights, and desegregation. From PBS.
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The African American Journey - A chronological look at the African American struggle for freedom.
The American Pageant Notes - Notes based on the US History text book, The American Pageant.
The Dakota Experience: Deadwood Illustrated - Imagine being a part of the old west in South Dakota. Click on the Native American, military man, and prospector to see what their concerns were. Includes photos from that time period.
Meta Description: [ South Dakota State Historical Society--The Dakota Experience: Creating Communities: The Frontier (1860-1880) ]
The Encyclopædia Britannica Guide to Black History - Multimedia site includes a timeline, overview of the eras in black history, links to biographical sketches of dozens of well-known African-Americans, and historic audio and video clips.
The Jamestown Online Adventure - A virtual history lesson where you find yourself landing in the New World and making all the decisions needed to found the Jamestown colony.
The Oregon-Trail - This web site is based on the award-winning documentary film from PBS. Read about the history of the trail and see the historic sites located along the trail.
The Population of Vermont - The history of the Indian tribes, early settlers, and more recent immigrants to Vermont. With a county map.
Time Line - A Brief History of the Fur Trade - Includes significant dates in the trapping and selling of animal furs from 1600 to 1850 in the area, which is now the United States.
Time Travelers - Leads kids on a virtual tour of historical places throughout Ohio. From the Ohio Historical Society.
Timeline of Events: 1750-1939 - Highlights major events in United States history.
Today in History - Each day, an event from American history is illustrated by digitized items from the Library of Congress American Memory historic collections.
Meta Description: [ Each day an event from American history is illustrated by digitized items from the Library of Congress American Memory historic collections. ]
U.S. History from 1890 to 1950 - Student-created timeline places 30 major events in historical context. Also includes essays and short profiles of Thomas Edison and Norman Rockwell.
U.S. History Timeline - Travel through 15,000 years of history from hunters of wooly mammoths to the 21st Century in this picture-enhanced timeline.
Meta Description: [ World Almanac for Kids: Facts, games and helpful stuff for kids ages 8 and up. ]
US Trek - A virtual tour to historic places.
USA Encyclopedia: 1840-1960 - A look at the history of the United States from a British perspective.
Meta Description: [ USA History 1840-1960 ]
Virtual Archaeologist - Learn about Native American tribes, who lived in the Missouri river in the area that is now known as North and South Dakota. Features photos of original dig sites, people, and the earth lodge. Page also offers walk through tours [Requires Shockwave Plugin].
WayBack - American history for kids. From PBS.
You Wouldn't Want to Sail on the Whaling Ship Essex - An illustrated site that tells the dramatic story of the sinking of the whaling ship Essex.
Zoot Suit Riots - Learn about the controversy surrounding the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles, 1942. From PBS.
Meta Description: [ In August 1942 the murder of a young Mexican American man ignited a firestorm in Los Angeles, pitting rebellious teenagers against the police and the press, and ultimately sparking brutal race riots. ]
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