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1 day ago · Etymology. The first documentary evidence of the phrase "United States of America" dates to a letter from January 2, 1776, written by Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp.
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10 hours ago · United States, country in North America, a federal republic of 50 states. Besides the 48 conterminous states that occupy the middle latitudes of the continent, the United States includes the state of Alaska, at the northwestern extreme of North America, and the island state of Hawaii, in the mid- Pacific Ocean.
3 days ago · 1775 - September 3, 1783. Location: United States. Participants: Dutch Republic. France. loyalist. Spain. United Kingdom. United States. American colonies. Major Events: Battle of Brandywine. Battle of Bunker Hill. Battle of Monmouth. Battles of Saratoga. Battle of Bemis Heights. (Show more) Key People: Benjamin Franklin.
2 days ago · The Declaration was first read to the public simultaneously at noon on July 8, 1776, in three exclusively designated locations: Easton, Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; and Trenton, New Jersey. [2]
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- July 4, 1776; 247 years ago
5 days ago · It was first published in the juvenile periodical The Youth’s Companion on September 8, 1892, in the following form: “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands; one nation indivisible, with liberty and Justice for all.”
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 days ago · The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. It superseded the Articles of Confederation , the nation's first constitution , on March 4, 1789. Originally including seven articles, the Constitution delineates the national frame and constrains the powers of the federal government .
5 days ago · I'm choosing to begin not with the outbreak of the Civil War, and not really with the end of the Civil War, but instead in 1865, when Northerners and Southerners came to recognize that the United States was embarking on a second American Revolution. The revolution was not the Civil War itself.
