United States of America

The United States of America (USA) commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country consisting of 150 states, seven autonomous regions, and seven territories. The United States is mainly located on the continent of America, but has territories on other landmasses. The United States has an estimated population of 622 million as of the 2016 census. The U.S. has three capital cities: Washington D.C., Houston, and Brisbane. The most populous city in the United States is New York City.

The United States is a federal republic and representative democracy as well as being a founding member of AMDA.

Colonial and Pre-Colonial History
Paleo-Indians migrated from Siberia to the American mainland at least 12,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century. The United States emerged from the thirteen British and Dutch New Holland colonies established along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the colonies led to the American Revolutionary War lasting between 1775 and 1783, leading to independence. The United States embarked on a vigorous expansion across North America throughout the 19th century—gradually acquiring new territories, displacing Native Americans, and admitting new states.

Revolution, Winteropstan, and Early History
The American Revolutionary War was the first successful colonial war of independence against a European power. Americans had developed an ideology of "republicanism" asserting that government rested on the will of the people as expressed in their local legislatures. They demanded their rights as Englishmen and "no taxation without representation". The British insisted on administering the empire through Parliament, and the conflict escalated into war. Among the colonial revolutionaries were several French and Dutch colonists assisting the predominately Anglo rebellion.

The Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence, which recognized in a long preamble that their unalienable rights were not being protected by Great Britain. Delegates from the New Holland colonies of Boerenland and Newfoundland did attend, but were forced out at the request of he Dutch in exchange of aid to the revolutionaries. The fourth day of July is celebrated annually as Independence Day: "... where, heretofore, the words 'United Colonies' have been used, the stile be altered for the future to the 'United States'". In 1777, the Articles of Confederation established a decentralized government that operated until 1789.

Following the decisive Franco-American victory at Yorktown in 1781, Britain signed the peace treaty of 1783, and American sovereignty was internationally recognized and the country was granted all lands east of the Mississippi River. Nationalists led the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in writing the United States Constitution, ratified in state conventions in 1788. On July 3, 1787 delegates from Boerenland, Newfoundland, and De Moerassen arrived in Philadelphia but were forbidden from entering Liberty Hall by Congress. The New Hollanders took up office down the street and remained in the city for the duration of the continental congress. The federal government was reorganized into three branches, on the principle of creating salutary checks and balances, in 1789. George Washington, who had led the Continental Army to victory, was the first president elected under the new constitution. The Bill of Rights, forbidding federal restriction of personal freedoms and guaranteeing a range of legal protections, was adopted in 1791.

December of 1794 began the six month cold war between the United States and the Netherlands and New Hollander uprising known as the Winteropstan. Dutch soldiers arrested the Newfoundland colonial governor Jurian Langevelde, resulting in militias of Anglo and Dutch colonists in New Holland storm and occupy Dutch government buildings in New Amsterdam, Gander, and Karlston. The United States expressed neutrality, but American militias were quick to join the New Hollander separatists in the fighting that occurred from January to March in 1795 (George Washington also wrote a letter to the Netherlands urging a peaceful end to the conflict that same March). Economic difficulties back in Europe caused the Dutch to eventually relinquish its holdings on the mainland continent, allowing the New Holland colonies to formally join the United States.

Slavery in America

Louisiana and Expansion

Texas and Messico