History of the United States History of the United States The U.S. 115th Infantry Regiment is a Maryland Army National Guard regiment that traces its roots back to the American Revolutionary War. The 115th Regiment served in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, and the Global War on Terror. The regiment is currently composed of just one battalion, the First Battalion, 115th Infantry (1-115th Infantry). The 1-115th is part of the Third Brigade, 29th Infantry Division (Light). ...more on Wikipedia about "115th Infantry Regiment"
The American's Creed is the official creed of the United States of America. It was written in 1917 by William Tyler Page as an entry into a patriotic contest. It was adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives the next year. ...more on Wikipedia about "American's Creed"
Between, 1880 and 1900 the urban population of the United States rose from 28% to 40% (1), and reached 50% by 1920, in part due to 9,000,000 European immigrants. After 1890 the US rural population began to plummet as farmers were displaced by mechanization and forced to migrate to urban factory jobs. After World War II, the US experienced a shift away from the cities, mostly due to the gaining popularity of the automobile and heavy government funding of suburban housing and highways. Many of the original manufacturing cities lost as much as half their population between 1950 and 1980. There was a shift in the population from the dense manufacturing centers of the Northeast ( rust belt) to the outer suburbs of these cities and to newer, less dense cities in the Southwest ( sun belt). ...more on Wikipedia about "Demographic history of the United States"
The economic history of the United States has its roots in the quest of European settlers for economic gain in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. The New World then progressed from a marginally successful colonial economy to a small, independent farming economy, which became the United States of America, which has a history spaning a period of less than two and a half centuries. Over the course of those years, the United States grew from an alliance of thirteen British colonies with distinct economies and institutions to a large, integrated, industrialized economy that makes up over a fifth of the world economy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Economic history of the United States"
Over the last three millennia, salt has been a driving force behind towns, cities, and entire civilizations. In the United States it has been a vital resource and export since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of salt in the United States"
Main article: Population history of American indigenous peoples. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of the United States"
After a year of warfare, the Congress declared the United States of America independent of Great Britain in the Declaration of Independence. The drafting of the Declaration was the responsibility of a committee of five, which included, among others, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, but the style of the document is attributed primarily to Thomas Jefferson. However, Jefferson's work was reviewed by Franklin at length and then submitted to the Congress where numerous changes were made, including the exclusion of his charges against George III regarding slavery. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of the United States (1776-1789)" Connect with www.shortopedia.com. shortopedia
Monroe is probably best known for the Monroe Doctrine, which he delivered in his message to Congress on December 2, 1823. In it, he proclaimed the Americas should be free from future European colonization and free from European interference in sovereign countries' affairs. It further stated the United States' intention to stay neutral in wars between European powers and their colonies, but to consider any new colonies or interference with independent countries in the Americas as hostile acts towards the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of the United States (1789-1849)"
The American Civil War (1861–1865) was fought in North America within the United States of America, between twenty-four mostly northern states of the Union and the Confederate States of America, a coalition of eleven southern states that declared their independence and claimed the right of secession from the Union in 1860–1861. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of the United States (1849-1865)"
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Ku Klux Klan, is the name of a number of past and present organizations in the United States that have advocated white supremacy and anti-Semitism. It practiced anti-Catholicism and nativism. It was infamous for violently attacking its opponents, which included African Americans, people of non-conservative Protestant faiths, immigrants, and people supporting equal rights for any of the above. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of the United States (1918-1945)"
For more than a decade after the end of World War II, few American historians saw any reason to challenge the official U.S. interpretation of the beginning of the Cold War: that the breakdown of relations was a direct result of Joseph Stalin's violation of the Yalta accords, the imposition of Soviet-dominated governments on an unwilling Eastern Europe, and aggressive Soviet expansionism. However, later historians, especially William Appleman Williams in his 1959 The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, Walter LaFeber in his 1967 America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1967, and the New Left historians of the late 1960s and 1970s, articulated an overriding concern: U.S. commitment to maintaining an "open door" for American trade in world markets. Some historians have argued that U.S. provocations and imperial ambitions were at least equally to blame, if not more. In short, historians have disagreed as to who was responsible for the breakdown of U.S.-Soviet relations and whether the conflict between the two superpowers was inevitable. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of the United States (1945-1964)"
U.S. involvement in the war gradually increased, though there never was a formal declaration of war. The U.S. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964 gave broad Congressional support to President Johnson to escalate U.S. involvement in the war. U.S. troop deployments and casualties steadily increased after this point. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of the United States (1964-1980)"
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In a 1999 Foreign Affairs essay, Samuel P. Huntington wrote that to reinforce its status in the post-Cold War world, ...more on Wikipedia about "History of the United States (1988-present)"
Labor unions in the United States today function as legally recognized representatives of workers in numerous industries, but are strongest among public sector employees. Activity by labor unions in the United States today centers on collective bargaining over wages, benefits, and working conditions for their membership and on representing their members if management attempts to violate contract provisions. Although down from the peak membership they achieved in the third quarter of the 20th century, American unions also remain an important political factor, both through mobilization of their own memberships and through coalitions with like-minded activist organizations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Labor unions in the United States"
(List of anti-American terrorist incidents) * 2000 - USS Cole attacked, 17 U.S. Navy sailors killed ...more on Wikipedia about "List of anti-American terrorist incidents"
The music history of the United States includes many styles of folk, popular and classical music. Some of the most well-known genres of American music are blues, rock and roll, country, hip hop, jazz and gospel. American music history began with the Native Americans, the first people to populate North America. The music of these people was highly varied in form, and was mostly religious in purpose. ...more on Wikipedia about "Music history of the United States"
Operation Condor ( Spanish:Operación Cóndor, Portuguese:Operação Condor) was a campaign of assassination and intelligence-gathering, dubbed counter-terrorism, conducted jointly by the intelligence and security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay in the mid-1970s, as its main participants. Other countries such as Colombia, Peru and Venezuela also cooperated, to a greater or lesser degree, by providing intelligence information, responding to requests from the security services of the Southern Cone countries. The United States provided assistance with "a communications installation in the Panama Canal Zone" acknowledged by a cable released in 2000 under Chile declassification project. Kenneth Maxwell review of Peter Kornbluh's book The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, in Foreign Affairs November/December 2003, pinpointed Henry Kissinger's influence in Operation Condor. Nearly ten nations of the American continent participated in the brutal campaign. ...more on Wikipedia about "Operation Condor"
The West Nile virus quickly spread across North America after its introduction in 1999. Current theory is that it was introduced accidentally by an air traveller who was infected before he arrived at New York. The disease spread quickly through infected birds. Mosquitoes spread the disease to mammals. It was mainly noted in horses but also appeared in a number of other species. The first human cases usually followed within three months of the first appearance of infected birds in the area except where cold weather interrupted the mosquito vectors. The rest of the article will deal only with human cases. ...more on Wikipedia about "Progress of the West Nile virus in the United States"
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