[194] In 2008, 273 incorporated places had populations over 100,000, nine cities had more than 1 million residents, and four global cities had over 2 million (New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston). Victory in the SpanishAmerican War the same year demonstrated that the United States was a world power and led to the annexation of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. ", "Base Structure Report, Fiscal Year 2008 Baseline", http://www.defense.gov/pubs/BSR_2008_Baseline.pdf, "Active Duty Military Personnel Strengths by Regional Area and by Country (309A)", http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/MILITARY/history/hst1003.pdf, "Illusions of Empire: Defining the New American Order", http://people.cas.sc.edu/rosati/ttp.ikenberry.empirereviews.fa.march04.htm, http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people4/CJohnson/cjohnson-con3.html, "The 15 Countries with the Highest Military Expenditure in 2010", http://www.sipri.org/research/armaments/milex/resultoutput/15majorspenders, "Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Request Overview", http://comptroller.defense.gov/defbudget/fy2012/FY2012_Budget_Request_Overview_Book.pdf, "Deadly Iraq War Ends with Exit of Last U.S. [121], The United States has been a leader in scientific research and technological innovation since the late 19th century. See more Wikipedia articles related to United States. Belly of the Beast Director's Cut is a ground-breaking documentary film that presents the hidden history of the United States and its secret origins of the deep state that you've never seen or heard before, as well as decoding their present-day conspiracies and the future prophecies to come. Dull, Jonathan R. (2003). The Second Great Awakening, beginning about 1800, made evangelicalism a force behind various social reform movements, including abolitionism. [107] While the American welfare state effectively reduces poverty among the elderly,[108] it provides relatively little assistance to the young. Colloquial names include the "U.S. of A." [44] In 1920, the women's rights movement won passage of a constitutional amendment granting women's suffrage. [3] Though larger than any other nation's, its national GDP is about 5% smaller than the GDP of the European Union at PPP in 2008. College football and basketball attract large audiences. [232] A work seen as capturing fundamental aspects of the national experience and charactersuch as Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925)may be dubbed the "Great American Novel".[233]. The Louisiana Purchase of French-claimed territory under President Thomas Jefferson in 1803 almost doubled the nation's size. Although "United States" is the official appositional term, "American" and "U.S." are more commonly used to refer to the country adjectivally ("American values", "U.S.forces"). Using Safari browser2. Tensions between American colonials and the British during the revolutionary period of the 1760s and early 1770s led to the American Revolutionary War, fought from 1775 to 1781. Resisting leftist land and income redistribution projects around the world, the United States often supported authoritarian governments. [212] Abortion policy was left to the states until the Supreme Court legalized the practice in 1973. VERY GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING), The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 The 14th Amendment, CIA Officer Exposes the Shadow Government 2017 (Part 1). Thomas Edison's laboratory developed the phonograph, the first long-lasting light bulb, and the first viable movie camera. [25] The Endangered Species Act of 1973 protects threatened and endangered species and their habitats, which are monitored by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.