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Motto: In God We Trust (official)E Pluribus Unum (traditional)(Latin: Out of Many, One) Anthem: "The Star-Spangled Banner" Capital:
Etymology
In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a world map on which he named the lands of the Western
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Geography, climate, and environment
Satellite image showing topography of the contiguous United StatesThe land area of the contiguous United States is approximately 1.9
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History
The history of the United States traditionally starts with the Declaration of Independence in the year 1776, yet its
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Native Americans and European settlers
The Mayflower transported Pilgrims to the New World in 1620,as depicted in William Halsall's The Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor,
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Independence and expansion
Declaration of Independence, by John Trumbull, 1817–18Tensions between American colonials and the British during the revolutionary period of the
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Civil War and industrialization
Battle of Gettysburg, lithograph by Currier & Ives, ca. 1863Tensions between slave and free states mounted with arguments over
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World War I, Great Depression, and World War II
An abandoned farm in South Dakota during the Dust Bowl, 1936At the outbreak of World War I in 1914,
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Cold War and protest politics
Martin Luther King, Jr. delivering his "I Have a Dream" speech, 1963The United States and Soviet Union jockeyed for
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