USA
GEOGRAPHY
Geography - note:
• mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii
• world's third-largest country by size
(after Russia and Canada) and by
population (after China and India);
Mt. McKinley is highest point in
North America and Death Valley the
lowest point on the continent
Climate: Natural Resources:
and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid
in the great plains west of the
Mississippi River, and arid in the Great • coal, copper, lead, molybdenum,
Basin of the southwest; low winter phosphates, rare earth elements,
temperatures in the northwest are uranium, bauxite, gold, iron, mercury,
nickel, potash, silver, tungsten, zinc,
ameliorated occasionally in January
petroleum, natural gas, timber
and February by warm chinook winds
from the eastern slopes of the Rocky
Mountains.
 People and culture
The culture of the United States of America is
primarily of Western, and European origin,[1] yet
its influences includes the cultures of Asian
American, African American, Latin American, and
Native American peoples and their cultures. The
United States has its own distinct social and
cultural characteristics, such as dialect, music,
arts, social habits, cuisine, and folklore. The
United States is ethnically diverse as a result of
large-scale European immigration throughout its
history, its hundreds of indigenous tribes and
cultures, and through African-American slavery
followed by emancipation. America is an
anglophone country with a legal system derived
from English common law.[2]

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 history
the history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the
first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures
formed, and many saw transformations in the 16th century away from more densely
populated lifestyles and towards reorganized polities elsewhere. The European
colonization of the Americas began in the late 15th century, however most colonies
in what would later become the United States were settled after 1600. By the 1760s,
the thirteen British colonies contained 2.5 million people and were established along
the Atlantic Coast east of the Appalachian Mountains. After defeating
France, the British government imposed a series of taxes, including the
Stamp Act of 1765, rejecting the colonists' constitutional argument that
new taxes needed their approval. Resistance to these taxes, especially the
Boston Tea Party in 1773, led to Parliament issuing punitive laws designed to end
self-government. Armed conflict began in Massachusetts in 1775.
 Gouvernament

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S.
government)[a] is the national government of the United States, a federal republic
located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, a city within a federal
district (the city of Washington in the District of Columbia, where most of the federal
government is based), five major self-governing territories and several island
possessions. The federal government, sometimes simply referred to as Washington, is
composed of three distinct branches: legislative, executive, and judicial, whose powers
are vested by the U.S. Constitution in the Congress, the president and the federal
courts, respectively. The powers and duties of these branches are further defined by
acts of Congress, including the creation of executive departments and courts inferior
to the Supreme Court.
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