United States of America
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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother
country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of
America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th
centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded
across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas
possessions.
The two most traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the
Civil War (1861-65), in which a northern Union of states defeated a secessionist
Confederacy of 11 southern slave states, and the Great Depression of the 1930s,
an economic downturn during which about a quarter of the labor force lost its
jobs.
Buoyed by victories in World Wars I and II and the end of the Cold War in
1991, the US remains the world's most powerful nation state. Over a span of more
than five decades, the economy has achieved steady growth, low unemployment and
inflation, and rapid advances in technology.
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Some of the information on this page was sourced from the Central Intelligence Agency