United States
United States of America
CAPITAL: Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia)
FLAG: The flag consists of 13 alternate stripes, 7 red and 6 white; these represent the 13 original colonies. Fi...
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1900s: Sports and Games
Just like today, Americans were sports crazy in the first decade of the century. The sports of baseball, basketball, football, and boxing all expanded in popularity. The Olympi...
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Bituminous Coal Strike
United States 1897
Synopsis
In 1890 the United Mine Workers of America (UMW), an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), formed in
Columbus, Ohio. At that time coal...
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United States
The United States of America is situated on the continent of North America; it spans a geographic area of more than 9.1 million square kilometers (3.5 million square miles). It has widel...
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United States of America
POPULATION 280,562,489PROTESTANT 52 percentROMAN CATHOLIC 24 percentJEWISH 3 percentOTHER (OTHER CHRISTIAN, NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIONS, BUDDHIST, HINDU, MUSLIM, NEW RELIGIOUS M...
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What are the American values? What do they value in life"
The first thing that came to mind when considering the above question was the American dream of being rich. Then I reconsidered and thought a...
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You never really think of the bond of out nation has and when you do it is hard to pick out just on. But I think that the most important bond our country has is people. People make up this country and...
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Weaknesses in America
Over the past few years, America has been tested to the extreme with both acts of terrorism and even natural disasters, killing thousands of people and revealing America's weak...
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