• The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or simply America, is a country primarily located in North America and consisting of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, and nine Minor Outlying Islands. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sectional division over slavery led to the secession of the Confederate States of America, which fought the remaining states of the Union during the American Civil War (1861-1865). (wikipedia.org)
  • The first documentary evidence of the phrase "United States of America" dates back 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. (wikipedia.org)
  • Moylan expressed his desire to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort. (wikipedia.org)
  • The first known publication of the phrase "United States of America" was in an anonymous essay in The Virginia Gazette newspaper in Williamsburg, on April 6, 1776. (wikipedia.org)
  • By June 1776, the name "United States of America" appeared in drafts of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, authored by John Dickinson, a Founding Father from the Province of Pennsylvania, and in the Declaration of Independence, written primarily by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, on July 4, 1776. (wikipedia.org)
  • means the Agreement between Canada, the United States of America and the United Mexican States, done at Buenos Aires on November 30, 2018, as amended by the Protocol of Amendment to the Agreement between Canada, the United States of America and the United Mexican States, done at Mexico City on December 10, 2019. (gc.ca)
  • means the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, the United States of America and the United Mexican States, done at Mexico City, Ottawa and Washington, on December 17, 1992. (gc.ca)
  • Should their country now be named as the United Vegetative States of America? (godlikeproductions.com)
  • 52 United States of America locations. (findagrave.com)
  • cemeteries found in United States of America will be saved to your photo volunteer list. (findagrave.com)
  • TUESDAY, Nov. 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The prevalence of stage 1 and stage 2 hypertension in 2015 to 2018 was 44.2 percent in Los Angeles (LA) County and 47.3 percent in the United States, according to a report published in the November Health E-Stats , a publication of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics. (msdmanuals.com)
  • A World Refugee Day event was organised by UNHCR and USA for UNHCR at the Union Station in Washington D.C. In his opening speech, the Secretary of State, Colin Powell, read a statement from US President George W. Bush. (unhcr.org)
  • Dr. Albright was the sixty-fourth secretary of state of the United States. (ushmm.org)
  • In 1997, she was named the first female secretary of state and became, at that time, the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. (ushmm.org)
  • As secretary of state, Dr. Albright reinforced America's alliances, advocated democracy and human rights, and promoted American trade and business, labor, and environmental standards abroad. (ushmm.org)
  • Secretary of State report regarding the autonomy of Hong Kong. (house.gov)
  • Cheryl D. Fryar, M.S.P.H., from the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, and colleagues present the percentage of adults in LA County and the United States with stage 1 and 2 hypertension, defined according to the 2017 blood pressure cut points (systolic blood pressure ≥130 mm Hg or diastolic blood pressure ≥80 mm Hg) or currently taking blood pressure medication during 2015 to 2018. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Health, United States now provides more timely digital content in addition to an annual report. (cdc.gov)
  • The authors of the study analyzed 23 states that enacted stand-your-ground laws between 2000 and 2016, and 18 states that did not have the laws during the full study period, from 1999 to 2017. (ktar.com)
  • Porcine epidemic virus (PEDV) is an emergent patho- search suggests directionality ( 7 , 8 ), with the virus moving gen in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Albright served as the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations and as a member of the president's cabinet. (ushmm.org)
  • Secretary Cohen served as secretary of defense from 1997 to 2001, where he oversaw the largest organization in the United States with a budget of $300 billion and three million military and civilian personnel. (ushmm.org)
  • A) The People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have agreed that the People's Republic of China will resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong on July 1, 1997. (house.gov)
  • Before the war, Northern states that had prohibited slavery also enacted laws similar to the slave codes and the later Black Codes: Connecticut, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, [2] and New York enacted laws to discourage free blacks from residing in those states. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some of the Northern states, those which had them, repealed such laws around the same time that the Civil War ended and slavery was abolished by constitutional amendment. (wikipedia.org)
  • [3] No African American served in federal elective office before the ratification in 1870 of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution , although some (including Alexander Twilight , as state senator in Vermont ) served in state elective offices concurrently with slavery. (wikipedia.org)
  • The answer, I quickly found, is yes: There were disunion abolitionists who were fiercely against slavery and who wanted the northern states to secede from the union in the 1840s and 1850s as a way not only to protest slavery but to undermine it. (thenation.com)
  • It is a founding member of the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization of American States, NATO, and WHO, and is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. (wikipedia.org)
  • A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. (state.gov)
  • A .mil website belongs to an official U.S. Department of Defense organization in the United States. (uscg.mil)
  • In addition, Vice Admiral Gautier served as Chief of Port Operations and Marine Environmental Response at Coast Guard Marine Safety Office San Francisco, and as a U.S. Delegate to United Nations and International Maritime Organization committees governing transportation of hazardous materials. (uscg.mil)
  • In 2004, Danforth represented the United States as ambassador to the United Nations, where he focused on ending the North-South civil war in Sudan, a twenty-year conflict that killed two million people and displaced five million more. (ushmm.org)
  • A United States whole-of-government approach saves lives, protects people most vulnerable to disease, and promotes stability in communities and nations. (oecd.org)
  • By 1900, the United States had established itself as a great power, becoming the world's largest economy. (wikipedia.org)
  • The aftermath of the war left the United States and the Soviet Union as the world's two superpowers and led to the Cold War. (wikipedia.org)
  • With the Soviet Union's collapse and the subsequent end of the Cold War in 1991, the United States emerged as the world's sole superpower. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2014, the United States helped launch the Global Health Security Agenda , which aims to enhance the world's ability to prevent, detect and respond to infectious disease threats. (oecd.org)
  • That could spell trouble for electricity in states such as California, Arizona and Nevada, depleting water supplies needed to cool power plants and reducing the flow to hydroelectric dams on waterways like the Colorado River. (politico.com)
  • Waiver of right of respondents California Attorney General Rob Bonta and State Controller Malia M. Cohen to respond filed. (supremecourt.gov)
  • Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. (cdc.gov)
  • The emergence of the chlorine-tolerant parasite Cryptosporidium -- the top cause of swimming pool-associated outbreaks in the United States -- has affected both drinking water systems and swimming pools because it can bypass our traditional safety net, chlorination. (medscape.com)
  • Although state health departments document investigations of disease epidemics and outbreaks, there is no national system for surveillance of epidemics. (cdc.gov)
  • Will there ever come a time to abandon this myth and the 50 "united" states altogether? (thenation.com)
  • It could be tempting to argue that economic considerations should be secondary when women's freedom and fundamental right to control their own bodies are threatened, at a time when the Supreme Court could overturn the jurisprudence that had established abortion rights in the United States for the past fifty years. (lemonde.fr)
  • Until that time, the United Kingdom will be responsible for the administration of Hong Kong. (house.gov)
  • These data summarize vaccine introduction status in United States Virgin Islands's in the national immunization programme. (who.int)
  • Elkins v. United States, 364 U.S. 206 (1960), was a US Supreme Court decision that held the "silver platter doctrine", which allowed federal prosecutors to use evidence illegally gathered by state police, to be a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wyoming was the first state in the country to approve a constitution that included a provision granting women the right to vote. (britannica.com)
  • [4] In 1890, the Democratic-dominated state legislature passed a new constitution disfranchising most black voters . (wikipedia.org)
  • He was the first African American to be elected by popular vote after the ratification in 1913 of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which established direct election of United States senators instead of indirect election by a state legislature. (wikipedia.org)
  • The widespread use of water in the United States has resulted in a broad array of pathogen- and chemical-related waterborne disease issues. (medscape.com)
  • The United States government is a federal republic and a representative democracy with three separate branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial. (wikipedia.org)
  • The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral United States Congress , which is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, in the UK, the monarch is the chief of state, and the prime minister is the head of government. (nationmaster.com)
  • In the US, the president is both the chief of state and the head of government. (nationmaster.com)
  • The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), led by the Department of State and implemented by six other government departments and agencies, provides technical assistance, training and commodity support including through public-private partnerships and data-driven investments in areas with the greatest HIV/AIDS burden. (oecd.org)
  • The U.S. Census Bureau defines "African Americans" as citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • The United States has 5-6 million feral swine, and be insufficient for nonlabile pathogens introduced through their populations are expanding rapidly ( 4 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Banning abortion in the United States would have disastrous economic consequences. (lemonde.fr)
  • Research shows that the legalization of abortion in the United States in 1973 significantly improved the living conditions of the most vulnerable women, especially among African-American women. (lemonde.fr)
  • The Impact of State Health Insurance and Abortion Policy on Women's Choice of Contraceptive Intensity in the United States. (lu.se)
  • Is it possible that the progressive policies and programs that I wanted to see put into place might be easier to enact in a smaller entity than the United States, with its 330 million people and the need to always convince people with very different attitudes and interests? (thenation.com)
  • They are subject to United States federal law, but may also enact local laws. (wikimedia.org)
  • This article examines how the automation of jobs has shaped spatial patterns of intergenerational income mobility in the United States over the past three decades. (lu.se)
  • These findings reveal how recent technological advances have contributed to the unequal patterns of economic opportunity in the United States today. (lu.se)
  • The Health, United States program provides national trends in health statistics. (cdc.gov)
  • The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C., and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. (wikipedia.org)
  • It has a bicameral national legislature composed of the House of Representatives, a lower house based on population, and the Senate, an upper house based on equal representation for each state. (wikipedia.org)
  • Question: What was the first national monument in the United States? (britannica.com)
  • Consequently, neither CDC nor state epidemiology programs have access to uniform, comparable surveillance data for monitoring temporal and geographic trends of epidemics or for providing national estimates of the frequency of epidemics. (cdc.gov)
  • The National Center for Health Statistics announces the release of Health, United States, 2013. (cdc.gov)
  • In this episode of ‘On Human Rights,’ RWI’s Russell Garner sat down with Marissa Jackson Sow, who is a research fellow at the Open Societies Foundation, to talk about the personhood project and dive deeper into contract law and human rights discourse in the United States. (lu.se)
  • he argued that the Court's extension of the rule would only create further confusion, and that the relation between federal and state criminal law should be governed by the principle of federalism. (wikipedia.org)
  • 5) Support for democratization is a fundamental principle of United States foreign policy. (house.gov)
  • Health, United States is the annual report on the health status of the Nation, submitted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the President and Congress. (cdc.gov)
  • Fueling the spiraling escalation of violence that has made the United States a global outlier in gun violence are laws that give license to people to shoot first. (ktar.com)
  • Proponents of stand-your-ground laws, put in place in some 20 states that followed Florida's lead, say the laws enhance public safety by reducing barriers that prevent people from exercising their right to self-defense. (ktar.com)
  • 6) The human rights of the people of Hong Kong are of great importance to the United States and are directly relevant to United States interests in Hong Kong. (house.gov)
  • In the United States, more than 100,000 people are living with sickle cell disease. (medlineplus.gov)
  • With new advancements in genetic therapy, researchers are finding ways to provide accessible treatment to the more than 100,000 people in the United States living with sickle cell disease. (medlineplus.gov)
  • [1] Although Black Codes existed before the Civil War and although many Northern states had them, the Southern U.S. states codified such laws in everyday practice. (wikipedia.org)
  • Clinicians' self-reported efficacy in cardiovascular prevention practice in the southeastern United States. (bvsalud.org)
  • From June through October, 1988, the four participating state epidemiology offices used a uniform data collection system to record reported epidemics investigated by their staffs or by other agencies in their states. (cdc.gov)
  • Although most states maintain written records for epidemic surveillance, many do not routinely computerize these data. (cdc.gov)
  • NCHS has released a new report that presents preliminary data for 2013 on births in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • This is a list of African Americans who have served in the United States Senate . (wikipedia.org)
  • You're finally heading to Southeastern United States and you have your list of underground spots that have yet to make the "best of" roundups. (hotwire.com)
  • It took 233 years, but the United States Supreme Court is finally on the cusp of getting its first Black female justice. (ktar.com)
  • After having lived for 15 years in a persistent vegetative state, Terri Schindler Schiavo crossed over from here to the hereafter on the last day of March. (godlikeproductions.com)
  • Danforth represented the State of Missouri in the U.S. Senate for eighteen years until he retired at the end of 1994. (ushmm.org)
  • Many policy issues are decentralized at a state or local level, with widely differing laws by jurisdiction. (wikipedia.org)
  • The flags of independent states are used by their dependencies unless there is an officially recognized local flag. (nationmaster.com)
  • The origin of United States Steel Corporation (U.S. Steel) is virtually an early history of the steel industry in the United States, which in turn is closely linked to the name of Andrew Carnegie . (encyclopedia.com)
  • On February 25, 1901, United States Steel Corporation was incorporated with an authorized capitalization of $1.4 billion, the first billion-dollar corporation in history. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The United States has never been an equal, peaceful, or functional nation, despite what the history textbooks say. (thenation.com)
  • The US Department of State co-ordinates global health security programming in select partner countries. (oecd.org)
  • Over the next decade, thousands of cities across the United States followed suit, contributing to a dramatic decrease in waterborne diseases such as typhoid fever, which had a 1000-fold reduction in incidence over the past century, making drinking water treatment one of the great public health achievements of the 20th century. (medscape.com)
  • The timeliness of reporting was measured as the interval between date of onset for the index case and date of report to the state health department. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1988, a 5-month pilot project to assess the feasibility and utility of a standard computerized surveillance system for epidemics was conducted by state epidemiology programs in Maryland, New York, Oklahoma, and Washington, and by the Epidemiology Program Office, CDC. (cdc.gov)
  • Question: Which of these U.S. states was the first in the country to grant women the right to vote? (britannica.com)
  • As such, it naturally applies to United States policy toward Hong Kong. (house.gov)
  • His stated goal for U.S. Steel was not to create a monopoly but to sustain trade and foster competition by competing on a basis of efficiency and price. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Evidence gathered by state law enforcement was therefore not yet bound by the same strictures as that gathered by federal law enforcement. (wikipedia.org)
  • Harris would go on to become the first African-American Vice President of the United States and first African-American president of the United States Senate . (wikipedia.org)
  • Hiram Rhodes Revels , the first African American to serve in the Senate, was elected in 1870 [4] by the Mississippi State Legislature to succeed Albert G. Brown , who resigned during the Civil War. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some Democratic members of the United States Senate opposed his being seated based on the court case Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) by the Supreme Court of the United States , claiming that Revels did not meet the nine-year citizenship requirement, but the majority of senators voted to seat him. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1872, the Louisiana state legislature elected P. B. S. Pinchback to the Senate. (wikipedia.org)
  • The United States declared independence on July 4, 1776, becoming the first nation-state founded on Enlightenment principles of unalienable natural rights, consent of the governed, and liberal democracy. (wikipedia.org)