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I.O.U.S.A. received mostly positive reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reported a score of 88% among critics, with a consensus of "A potent and lithely constructed documentary about America's financial crisis, I.O.U.S.A grabs you with figures but holds you with irreverent wit."
During their ownership of West Florida, the British had moved its border north, and the cession to Spain appeared to apply to the full extent of the British colony. However, the British-American treaty granted the extension of West Florida to the United States, where it presumably enlarged Georgia south to 31° north , indicating that only the ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 February 2025. "American history" redirects here. For the history of the continents, see History of the Americas. Further information: Economic history of the United States Current territories of the United States after the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands was given independence in 1994 This ...
Using mainly archival footage shot by the media and U.S. government, [4] [5] [6] the film examines fictional towns (which the filmmaker discovered after reading author Rick Perlstein's 2008 book Nixonland) [7] to combat rioters that were created by military officials during the civil unrest of 1960s America.
The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
The term was coined by Time publisher Henry Luce to describe what he thought the role of the United States would be and should be during the 20th century. [6] Luce, the son of a missionary, in a February 17, 1941, Life magazine editorial urged the United States to forsake isolationism for a missionary's role, acting as the world's Good Samaritan and spreading democracy. [7]
In a New York City bar, the brooding, mysterious forecaster Mr. Ohman is sitting and drinking brandy. He gets into discussions with a cross-section of affluent Americans at the bar, including local television newscaster Vince Potter, beautiful young New York society woman Carla Sanford, a California industrialist, a rancher from Arizona, and a congressman.
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 80% based on 50 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10. The site's critics' consensus reads: "An admirable yet incomplete effort to cover a sprawling subject, Whitey: United States of America v.