Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Image:Blank US Map with borders.svg, a blank states maps with borders. Image:BlankMap-USA.png, a map with no borders and states separated by transparency. Image:US map - geographic.png, a geographical map. On Wikimedia Commons, a free online media resource: commons:Category:Maps of the United States, the category for all maps with subcategories.
The islands were supposed to be included in the 1900 transfer of islands from Spain to the United States. Per the terms of the treaty, the United Kingdom continued to administer the islands until requested, and, after the Philippines' independence, the Philippine government made such a request and took control. [396]
Blank map of the USA: Date: 10 September 2006: Source: Modified from Image:Map of USA with state names.svg: Author: Original author User:Wapcaplet, modified by Angr: Permission (Reusing this file) Multilicensed under GFDL and CC-BY-SA: Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Map of States with State Defense Forces.png; Official Dog ...
Blank map of the United States with state boundaries. Modified from File:Map of USA without state names.svg (Hawaii and Alaska insets more clearly distinguished; slightly cropped, etc.) Date: 21 September 2010: Source: Modified from File:Map of USA without state names.svg, which was modified from Image:Map of USA with state names.svg: Author
In 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit upheld the District Court decision in Segovia v. United States, which ruled that former Illinois residents living in Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands did not qualify to cast overseas ballots according to their last registered address on the U.S. mainland. [150]
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.