United States of America

Location
The United States is in the north of America
between Canada and Mexico. It is Capital is Washington
D.C. It is a Country of great geographical extent and has
four time zones. It is boundaries to the east and west
are the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

Population
The population is thee hundred thirteen millions
eight hundred forty seven thousand four hundred sixty
five (313.847.465). The recognize 6 ethnic groups:
whites, blacks or African Americans, native American,
Indians, Alaska Natives and Asians. In the population
whites dominated by 70%, blacks by 12% and the
others are 18%.
In USA 90% of people live in urban areas.

Population

Whites
Blacks
The others

Language
The official language is English and is spoken by the
majority of the resident population, but the number
of Spanish. Speaking resident in the United States
Spanish is the second most widely used language
for communication.
Other commonly spoken languages are Chinese, polish,
Korean,
Vietnamese,
Portuguese,
Japanese,
Russian, French and others.

Form of government
The United States is a constitutional, presidential and
federal republic. His form of government is known as
presidential democracy because there is a president.
The choice of the president is indirect across umpires or
big electors. His period is 4 years. There are three
levels of government: the federal level, the state level,
and the local or municipal level.
The president has the chiefs attributions of condition
and of government, besides being the commander in
chief of the Army. He is also chief of the executive
power.
The principal political parties are the Republican Party
and the Democratic Party.

National Symbols
The flag
The most revered symbol of it is citizens, is the flag.
The red and white stripes and white stars on a blue
background relate the history of the country, his
indomitable spirit and his love of freedom. The June 14,
1999 a date now celebrated nationwide as Flag Day.
The founding fathers according would have 13 red and
white stripes which represent the 13 newly created and
19 stars on a single fund, which would represent their
merger into a single union.

Shield
Here is another key symbol: The seal of the united
states on the front, containing the main design, a bald
eagle in a claw holding on olive branch, symbolizing
peace, and in the other bundle of 13 arrows one for
each of the original. Eagle chest appears a shield of red
and white stripes and the peak there is a bar with a
Latin inscription that reads e plumbus unum, which
means out of many, one, on his head is a constellation
of 13 stars, on the back there is unfinished pyramid,
which means enduring strength. The secretary of state
has in custody this shield or seal, which, by law, must
appear on all important documents.
The September 15, 1789 a congressional resolution
proclaiming that the version of 1782 would be the seal
of the United States.

Anthem
The national anthem of the United States is recognized
worldwide. Born during the early hours of September
14, 1814, after a 25 hour bombing fort McHenry.
Scott key, who besides being a law year was a poet,
reached into his jawed pocket and found an old letter.
He began to compose a poem titled in defense of fort
McHenry on old English tavem song: to Anacreon a
haven is key wrote the letter following the melody and
rhythm of the sung. The composition was first perfumed
in public on October 19, 1814 and has since been sung
in parades, at official events in schools and even before
the start of sporting events.

The march 31, 1931 by a resolution of congress aligned

by president her Bert Hoover, the patriotic poem was
designated national anthem.
Three figures embody the best known symbols of the
United States: the statue of liberty, Uncle Sam and
Columbia

Ku Klux Klan
Is the name we adopted several far-plight
organizations in the united states, created in the
nineteenth century, immediately after the civil war, and
that mainly promote xenophobia and the supremacy of
the white race, homophobia, anti-Semitism, racism and
anti-atheism, often these organizations have engaged
in terrorism, violence and intimidation, such as cross
burnings, to oppress their victims. The first incarnation
of the Klan was founded in late 1865. The KKK was
formally dissolved in 1870. In 1915 he founded a new
association that used the same name, inspired by the
power that had the mass media. The number of
members became 4-5 million. Since then, several
groups have used different names. The modern KKK has
been repudiated by the media, politicians and religious
leaders of the United States.

Racial Segregation
Between 1870 and 1970, the south of the USA lived
through one of the most shameful periods of the history
of his country. Abolished the slavery and influenced by
the racist ideologies anti-black creates a system of
racial segregation in which the northern whites
established his supremacy on blacks and Hispanics.
The discrimination and the racism were habitual in
cities a New York, Boston, Detroit and Chicago.
Since the conditions could not eliminate the rights of
the blacks on having been guaranteed by the
constitution, the term of segregation was used by the
concept of Separated but Equal".
In them one was denting the right to vote of the blacks.
Soon there was restored a regime of apartheid in which
more than 13 million blacks were forced to live isolated
from the rest of the society. The housings, schools,
transport, hotels, restaurants, even the wash basins
were divided to prevent the white man from
contaminating for the influence of the black.
In some cities managed to apply a martial law that was
prohibiting to the blacks to go out the street from ten
oclock in the night.
In the south it was prohibiting to the blacks to associate
and to inform in the unions.

Martin Luther King

He was one of the
principal leaders of the
movement for the defense
of the civil laws and
important defender of the
resistance does not force
to the racial repression.

He was born in Atlanta on January 15, 1929 and he died

because an assassination in Memphis, on April 4, 1968
before a political meeting.
King studied in the booker T. Washington High School of
Atlanta, and entered the Morehouse College, a
university reserved to the black young persons, at the
age of 15. In 1948 he graduated in sociology and a
master in theology in June 12 of 1951. In June 5 of 1955
he receives the degree of Doctor of philosophy.
He married on June 18, 1953 Coretta Scott. They had
four children: Yolanda King in 1955, Martin Luther King
in 1957, Dexter Scott King in 1961 and Bernice King in
1963.
In 1955 Luther King directs a boycott against a
company of public transport in Duffle-coat. Kin was
arrested and imprisoned; his housing was destroyed

and received many threats against his life. The boycott

finished in 1956.

He is recognized because:
He took part as activist in numerous protests against
the war of Vietnam and the poverty in general.
For his fights directed to ending with the American
Apartheid and the racial discrimination across not
violent means.
It was decorated with the Nobel Prize on the Paz in
1964, among other things.
After his assassination he became a symbol of protest
in the struggle for racial justice.

If I knew that tomorrow the

world ends, I still today, plant
a tree.
Luther King

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