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. Fifty five-pointed white stars, representing the present number of...

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 MOVEMENTS, SHAKER, MORMON, SEVENTHDAY ADVENTIST,...

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 Olympics became an international spectacle of sports. Not content to remain...

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 widely varied geographic characteristics, from the Great...

United States 1897 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 miners around the United States labored in horrendous working conditions. Few...

country of North America, a federal republic of 50 states. Besides the 48 contiguous states that occupy the middle latitudes of the continent, the United States includes the state of Alaska, at the northwestern extreme of North America, and the island...

Country, North America. It comprises 48 conterminous states occupying the mid-continent, Alaska at the northwestern extreme of North America, and the island state of Hawaii in the mid-Pacific Ocean. Area, including the U.S. share of the Great Lakes:...

The United States of America (USA) is one of Western Europe’s closest allies. With the Marshall Plan the USA supported the economic reconstruction of Western Europe following the Second World War; it provided military support during and after the...

Founded in 1965, US (United Slaves) was a cultural nationalist group based in Los Angeles and headed by Maulana Ron Karenga. US espoused the doctrine of racial pride and the value of learning about and strengthening African American culture. Best known...

Founded in 1968 as the Black American Baptist Churchmen, the American Baptist Black Caucus (ABBC) is an organization of black congregations within the American Baptist Churches, U.S.A. Adopting its current name in 1981, the ABBC seeks to reform the...

In 1968, Effie Lee Morris proposed that the African American members of the American Library Association (ALA) meet to discuss mutual interests and complaints. The ALA, though open to blacks, rarely addressed the needs of its African American members...

In 1895, leading blacks in Pennsylvania organized the Afro-American Republican League of Pennsylvania. The league endured until circa 1913. It provided an official political voice for black Pennsylvanians at a time when other minorities had none....

Enterprise formed by John Jacob Astor in 1808 that dominated the U.S. fur trade early in the 19th century. The company, considered the first U.S. business monopoly, absorbed or drove out rivals throughout the central and western U.S. Exploration by its...

1. The conventional abbreviation for sentence (senses 2 and 3). 2. A conventional abbreviation for subject in the ‘subject-verb-object’ analysis of basic word order types. 3. A conventional abbreviation for ‘intransitive...

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital...