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421 relations: Abolitionism in the United States, Affluence in the United States, Afghan Americans, Africa, African Americans, African immigration to the United States, African-American culture, African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era, Afrikaners, Afroasiatic languages, Agnosticism, Alaska Natives, American ancestry, American Australians, American Brazilians, American Canadians, American Civil War, American cuisine, American English, American immigration to Mexico, American Indian Wars, American Jews, American New Zealanders, American Revolutionary War, American Samoa, American studies, Americans and Canadians in Chile, Americans in Argentina, Americans in China, Americans in Costa Rica, Americans in France, Americans in Germany, Americans in Hong Kong, Americans in India, Americans in Japan, Americans in Pakistan, Americans in the Philippines, Americans in the United Arab Emirates, Americans in the United Kingdom, Americas, Anglicanism, Angola, Arab American Institute, Arab American National Museum, Arab Americans, Arab world, Arizona, Armenian Americans, Asia, Asian Americans, ... Expand index (371 more) »
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Abolitionism in the United States
In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War, the end of which brought about the abolition of American slavery, except as punishment for a crime, through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1865).
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Affluence in the United States
Affluence refers to an individual's or household's economical and financial advantage in comparison to others.
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Afghan Americans
Afghan Americans (آمریکاییهای افغانتبار Amrikāyi-hāye Afghān tabar, د امريکا افغانان Da Amrīka Afghanan) are Americans with ancestry from Afghanistan.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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African immigration to the United States
African immigration to the United States refers to immigrants to the United States who are or were nationals of modern African countries. Americans and African immigration to the United States are immigration to the United States.
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African-American culture
African-American culture, also known as Black American culture or Black culture in American English, refers to the cultural expressions of African Americans, either as part of or distinct from mainstream American culture.
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African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era
More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern states.
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Afrikaners
Afrikaners are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652.Entry: Cape Colony. Encyclopædia Britannica Volume 4 Part 2: Brain to Casting. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 1933. James Louis Garvin, editor. Until 1994, they dominated South Africa's politics as well as the country's commercial agricultural sector.
Afroasiatic languages
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel.
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Agnosticism
Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or currently unknown in fact.
Alaska Natives
Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska and include Alaskan Creoles, Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.
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American ancestry
American ancestry refers to people in the United States who self-identify their ancestral origin or descent as "American", rather than the more common officially recognized racial and ethnic groups that make up the bulk of the American people.
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American Australians
American Australians are Australian citizens who are of American descent, including immigrants and residents who are descended from migrants from the United States of America and its territories.
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American Brazilians
An American Brazilian (américo-brasileiro, norte-americano-brasileiro, estadunidense-brasileiro) is a Brazilian person who is of full, partial or predominant American descent or a U.S.-born immigrant in Brazil.
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American Canadians
American Canadians are Canadians of American descent.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
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American cuisine
American cuisine consists of the cooking style and traditional dishes prepared in the United States.
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American English
American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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American immigration to Mexico
American Mexicans (estadounidense-mexicanos) are Mexicans of full or partial Americans heritage, who are either born in, or descended from migrants from the United States and its territories.
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American Indian Wars
The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, United States of America, and briefly the Confederate States of America and Republic of Texas against various American Indian tribes in North America.
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American Jews
American Jews or Jewish Americans are American citizens who are Jewish, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion.
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American New Zealanders
American New Zealanders are New Zealand citizens who are of American descent of American-born citizens from the United States.
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American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.
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American Samoa
American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the South Pacific Ocean.
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American studies
American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship that examines American literature, history, society, and culture.
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Americans and Canadians in Chile
American Chileans and Canadian Chileans are among roughly 300,000 Chileans of North American ancestry (includes Americans and Canadians).
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Americans in Argentina
There is a community of Americans living in Argentina consisting of immigrants and expatriates from the United States as well as their local born descendants.
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Americans in China
Americans in China are expatriates and immigrants from the United States as well as their locally born descendants.
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Americans in Costa Rica
Americans in Costa Rica consists of immigrants and expatriates from the United States to Costa Rica, mostly retirees.
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Americans in France
Americans in France consists of immigrants and expatriates from the United States as well as French people of American ancestry.
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Americans in Germany
Americans in Germany or American Germans (German: Amerikanische Deutsche or Amerika-Deutsche) refers to the American population in Germany and their German-born descendants.
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Americans in Hong Kong
The United States consulate estimates there are about 70,000 Americans in Hong Kong, a drop from 85,000 since its 2018 estimate; no census by any US government organization has ever been attempted.
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Americans in India
Americans in India comprise immigrants from the United States living in India, along with Indian citizens of American descent.
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Americans in Japan
are citizens of the United States residing in Japan.
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Americans in Pakistan
Americans in Pakistan (Urdu: امریکی) form a sizeable expatriate community.
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Americans in the Philippines
American settlement in the Philippines (paninirahan sa Pilipinas ng mga Amerikano) began during the Spanish colonial period.
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Americans in the United Arab Emirates
Americans in the United Arab Emirates are residents of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who originate from the United States.
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Americans in the United Kingdom
Americans in the United Kingdom or American Britons are emigrants from the United States who are residents or citizens of the United Kingdom.
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Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.
Arab American Institute
The Arab American Institute (AAI) is a non-profit membership organization that advocates for the interests of Arab-Americans.
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Arab American National Museum
The Arab American National Museum (AANM, المتحف الوطني العربي الأمريكي) is a museum in Dearborn, Michigan, highlighting the history, experiences, and contributions of Arab Americans.
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Arab Americans
Arab Americans (translit or) are Americans of Arab ancestry.
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Arab world
The Arab world (اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), formally the Arab homeland (اَلْوَطَنُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), also known as the Arab nation (اَلْأُمَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, comprises a large group of countries, mainly located in Western Asia and Northern Africa.
Arizona
Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.
Armenian Americans
Armenian Americans (translit) are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or partial Armenian ancestry.
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Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
Asian Americans
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).
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Asian immigration to the United States
Asian immigration to the United States refers to immigration to the United States from part of the continent of Asia, which includes East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
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Asian Pacific Americans
Asian/Pacific American (APA) or Asian/Pacific Islander (API) or Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) or Asian American and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) is a term sometimes used in the United States when including both Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
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Atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.
Atlantic slave trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas.
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Azerbaijani Americans
Azerbaijani Americans (Amerikalı Azərbaycanlılar) are Americans of the Azerbaijani ancestry from the Republic of Azerbaijan and Iranian Azerbaijan or people possessing Azerbaijani, Iranian, and/or American citizenship.
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Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years (depending on institution and academic discipline).
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Baháʼí House of Worship (Wilmette, Illinois)
The Baháʼí House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois (or Chicago Baháʼí Temple) is a Baháʼí temple.
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Bantu peoples
The Bantu peoples are an ethnolinguistic grouping of approximately 400 distinct native African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
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Barbadian Americans
Barbadian (or Bajan) Americans are Americans of full or partial Barbadian heritage.
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Basic Books
Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1950 and located in New York City, now an imprint of Hachette Book Group.
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is a Catholic minor basilica and national shrine in Washington D.C. It is the largest Catholic church building in North America and is also the tallest habitable building in Washington, D.C. Its construction of Byzantine and Romanesque Revival architecture began on 23 September 1920.
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Benin
Benin (Bénin, Benɛ, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin), and also known as Dahomey, is a country in West Africa.
Berbers
Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also called by their endonym Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb.
Bible Belt
The term Bible Belt refers to a region of the Southern United States and the Midwestern state of Missouri (which also has significant Southern influence), where Christian Protestanism exerts a strong social and cultural influence.
Birthright citizenship in the United States
United States citizenship can be acquired by birthright in two situations: by virtue of the person's birth within United States territory or because at least one of their parents was a U.S. citizen at the time of the person's birth. Americans and birthright citizenship in the United States are immigration to the United States.
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Black church
The black church (sometimes termed Black Christianity or African American Christianity) is the faith and body of Christian denominations and congregations in the United States that predominantly minister to, and are also led by African Americans, as well as these churches' collective traditions and members.
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Black Loyalist
Black Loyalists were people of African descent who sided with the Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War.
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Black people
Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion.
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British Americans
British Americans usually refers to Americans whose ancestral origin originates wholly or partly in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland and also the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, and Gibraltar).
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Buddhism in the United States
The term American Buddhism can be used to describe all Buddhist groups within the United States, including Asian-American Buddhists born into the faith, who comprise the largest percentage of Buddhists in the country.
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Cajuns
The Cajuns (French: les Cadjins or les Cadiens), also known as Louisiana Acadians (French: les Acadiens), are a Louisiana French ethnicity mainly found in the U.S. state of Louisiana and surrounding Gulf Coast states.
California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
Cantonese
Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta, with over 82.4 million native speakers.
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about.
Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
Carolinian language
Carolinian is an Austronesian language originating in the Caroline Islands, but spoken in the Northern Mariana Islands.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Catholic Church in the United States
The Catholic Church in the United States is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the pope.
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Central Africa
Central Africa is a subregion of the African continent comprising various countries according to different definitions.
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Chamorro language
Chamorro (Finuʼ Chamorro (CNMI), Finoʼ CHamoru (Guam)) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 58,000 people, numbering about 25,800 on Guam and about 32,200 in the Northern Mariana Islands and elsewhere.
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Chamorro people
The Chamorro people (also CHamoru) are the Indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, politically divided between the United States territory of Guam and the encompassing Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Micronesia, a commonwealth of the US.
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Cherokee
The Cherokee (translit, or translit) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States.
Chicago
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.
Chinese Americans
Chinese Americans are Americans of Chinese ancestry.
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Chinese language
Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.
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Choctaw
The Choctaw (Chahta) are a Native American people originally based in the Southeastern Woodlands, in what is now Alabama and Mississippi.
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Christianity by country
As of the year 2023, Christianity had approximately 2.4 billion adherents and is the largest religion by population.
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Christianity in the United States
Christianity is the most prevalent religion in the United States.
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Christians
A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
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Church (building)
A church, church building, or church house is a building used for Christian worship services and other Christian religious activities.
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Citizenship of the United States
Citizenship of the United States is a legal status that entails Americans with specific rights, duties, protections, and benefits in the United States.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.
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Colombian Americans
Colombian Americans (Colomboestadounidenses), are Americans who have Colombian ancestry.
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Colonial history of the United States
The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War.
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Columbia (personification)
Columbia, also known as Lady Columbia, Miss Columbia is a female national personification of the United States.
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Conservatism
Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values.
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Constitution of the United States
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States.
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Contiguous United States
The contiguous United States (officially the conterminous United States) consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states and the District of Columbia of the United States of America in central North America.
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Continental Army
The Continental Army was the army of the United Colonies representing the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States during the American Revolutionary War.
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Continental Navy
The Continental Navy was the navy of the Thirteen Colonies (later the United States) during the American Revolutionary War.
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Cuban Americans
Cuban Americans (cubanoestadounidenses or cubanoamericanos) are Americans who immigrated from or are descended from immigrants from Cuba, regardless of racial or ethnic origin.
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Cultural identity
Cultural identity is a part of a person's identity, or their self-conception and self-perception, and is related to nationality, ethnicity, religion, social class, generation, locality, gender, or any kind of social group that has its own distinct culture.
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Culture of France
The culture of France has been shaped by geography, by historical events, and by foreign and internal forces and groups.
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Culture of Germany
The culture of Germany has been shaped by major intellectual and popular currents in Europe, both religious and secular.
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Culture of Italy
The culture of Italy encompasses the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, and customs of the Italian peninsula and of the Italians throughout history.
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Culture of Mexico
Mexico's culture emerged from the culture of the Spanish Empire and the preexisting indigenous cultures of Mexico.
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Culture of the United Kingdom
The culture of the United Kingdom is influenced by its combined nations' history; its historically Christian religious life, its interaction with the cultures of Europe, the individual cultures of England, Wales and Scotland and the impact of the British Empire.
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Culture of the United States
The culture of the United States of America, also referred to as American culture, encompasses various social behaviors, institutions, and norms in the United States, including forms of speech, literature, music, visual arts, performing arts, food, sports, religion, law, technology as well as other customs, beliefs, and forms of knowledge.
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Dearborn, Michigan
Dearborn is a city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States.
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Democracy
Democracy (from dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.
Demonyms for the United States
People from the United States of America are known as and refer to themselves as Americans.
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Deportation of Americans from the United States
Deportation of Americans from the United States is the wrongful expulsion, return or extradition of Americans to other countries, often after being convicted of a crime.
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Developed country
A developed country, or advanced country, is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy, and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.
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Dominican Americans
Dominican Americans (domínico-americanos, estadounidenses dominicanos) are Americans who trace their ancestry to the Dominican Republic.
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Dutch Americans
Dutch Americans (Nederlandse Amerikanen) are Americans of Dutch and Flemish descent whose ancestors came from the Low Countries in the distant past, or from the Netherlands as from 1830 when the Flemish became independent from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands by creating the Kingdom of Belgium.
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East Africa
East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.
East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.
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Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
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Ecuadorian Americans
Ecuadorian Americans (ecuatorio-americanos, norteamericanos de origen ecuatoriano or estadounidenses de origen ecuatoriano) are Americans of full or partial Ecuadorian ancestry.
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Educational attainment in the United States
The educational attainment of the U.S. population refers to the highest level of education completed.
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Egalitarianism
Egalitarianism, or equalitarianism, is a school of thought within political philosophy that builds on the concept of social equality, prioritizing it for all people.
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Emigration from the United States
Emigration from the United States is the process where citizens from the United States move to live in countries other than the US, creating an American Diaspora (Overseas Americans).
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English Americans
English Americans (historically known as Anglo-Americans) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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English law
English law is the common law legal system of England and Wales, comprising mainly criminal law and civil law, each branch having its own courts and procedures.
Epidemic
An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος demos "people") is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of hosts in a given population within a short period of time.
Esquire (magazine)
Esquire is an American men's magazine.
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Ethiopian Regiment
The Royal Ethiopian Regiment, also known as Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment, was a British military unit of formerly enslaved Black enlisted men.
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Ethnic groups in Europe
Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe.
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Ethnic stereotype
An ethnic stereotype or racial stereotype involves part of a system of beliefs about typical characteristics of members of a given ethnic group, their status, societal and cultural norms.
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Ethnicity
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.
Ethnoreligious group
An ethnoreligious group (or an ethno-religious group) is a grouping of people who are unified by a common religious and ethnic background.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
European Americans
European Americans are Americans of European ancestry.
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European colonization of the Americas
During the Age of Discovery, a large scale colonization of the Americas, involving a number of European countries, took place primarily between the late 15th century and the early 19th century.
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Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.
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Evergreen, San Jose
Evergreen, also known as Evergreen Valley, is a large district of San Jose, California, located in East San Jose.
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Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.
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Filipino Americans
Filipino Americans (Mga Pilipinong Amerikano) are Americans of Filipino ancestry.
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First Amendment to the United States Constitution
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.
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First Baptist Church in America
The First Baptist Meetinghouse, also known as the First Baptist Church in America is the oldest Baptist church congregation in the United States.
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Flag of the United States
The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars.
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Florida
Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Folklore of the United States
American folklore encompasses the folklore that has evolved in the present-day United States mostly since the European colonization of the Americas.
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French Americans
French Americans or Franco-Americans (Franco-américains) are citizens or nationals of the United States who identify themselves with having full or partial French or French-Canadian heritage, ethnicity and/or ancestral ties.
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French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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French-Canadian Americans
French-Canadian Americans (Américains franco-canadiens; also referred to as Franco-Canadian Americans or Canadien Americans) are Americans of French-Canadian descent. About 2.1 million U.S. residents cited this ancestry in the 2010 U.S. Census; the majority of them speak French at home. Americans of French-Canadian descent are most heavily concentrated in New England, New York State, Louisiana and the Midwest.
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Gallup, Inc.
Gallup, Inc. is an American multinational analytics and advisory company based in Washington, D.C. Founded by George Gallup in 1935, the company became known for its public opinion polls conducted worldwide.
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Genocide
Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people, either in whole or in part.
Georgian Americans
Georgian Americans (tr) are Americans of full or partial Georgian ancestry.
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German Americans
German Americans (Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry.
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German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
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Ghanaian Americans
Ghanaian Americans are an ethnic group of Americans of full or partial Ghanaian ancestry or Ghanaian immigrants who became naturalized citizen of the United States.
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Goatee
A goatee is a style of facial hair incorporating hair on one's chin but not the cheeks.
God
In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith.
Greater Los Angeles
Greater Los Angeles is the most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. state of California, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County in the east, with Los Angeles County in the center, and Orange County to the southeast.
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Guam
Guam (Guåhan) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean.
Guatemalan Americans
Guatemalan Americans (guatemalteco-americanos, norteamericanos de origen guatemalteco or estadounidenses de origen guatemalteco) are Americans of full or partial Guatemalan descent.
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Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau (Guiné-Bissau; script; Mandinka: ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫ ߓߌߛߊߥߏ߫ Gine-Bisawo), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (República da Guiné-Bissau), is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 2,026,778.
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Gurdwara Sahib of San Jose
The Sikh Gurdwara of San Jose is a gurdwara (a Sikh place of worship) located in the Evergreen district of San Jose, California.
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Hacienda Heights, California
Hacienda Heights is an unincorporated suburban community in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Haitian Americans
Haitian Americans (Haïtiens-Américains; ayisyen ameriken) are a group of Americans of full or partial Haitian origin or descent.
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Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.
Hawaiian language
Hawaiian (Ōlelo Hawaii) is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiokinai, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hinduism in the United States
Hinduism is the fourth-largest religion in the United States, comprising 1% of the population, the same as Buddhism and Islam.
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Hispanic and Latino Americans
Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.
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Historical racial and ethnic demographics of the United States
The racial and ethnic demographics of the United States have changed dramatically throughout its history.
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Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral (Chicago)
Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Orthodox Church in America Diocese of the Midwest.
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Honduran Americans
Honduran Americans (hondureño-americano, norteamericano de origen hondureño or estadounidense de origen hondureño) are Americans of full or partial Honduran descent.
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Honolulu County, Hawaii
Honolulu County, officially known as the City and County of Honolulu (formerly Oahu County), is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Hawaii.
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Household income in the United States
Household income is an economic standard that can be applied to one household, or aggregated across a large group such as a county, city, or the whole country.
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Hsi Lai Temple
Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple is a mountain monastery in the northern Puente Hills, Hacienda Heights, Los Angeles County, California.
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Hyphenated American
In the United States, the term hyphenated American refers to the use of a hyphen (in some styles of writing) between the name of an ethnicity and the word in compound nouns, e.g., as in.
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Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Immigration to the United States
Immigration to the United States has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of its history.
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Indentured servitude
Indentured servitude is a form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years.
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Indian Americans
Indian Americans are people with ancestry from India who are citizens of the United States.
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Indigenous languages of the Americas
The Indigenous languages of the Americas are a diverse group of languages that originated in the Americas prior to colonization, many of which continue to be spoken.
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Individualism
Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, and social outlook that emphasizes the intrinsic worth of the individual.
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Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture
The Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture (ISSSC) is located at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Interracial marriage
Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different races or racialized ethnicities.
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Iranian Americans
Iranian Americans, also known as Persian Americans, are citizens or nationals of the United States who are of Iranian ancestry.
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Irish Americans
Irish Americans (Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are ethnic Irish who live in the United States and are American citizens.
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Irish Catholics
Irish Catholics (Caitlicigh na hÉireann) are an ethnoreligious group native to Ireland whose members are both Catholic and Irish.
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Irreligion
Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices.
Irreligion in the United States
In the United States, between 4% and 15% of citizens demonstrated nonreligious attitudes and naturalistic worldviews, namely atheists or agnostics.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Islam in the United States
Islam is the third-largest religion in the United States (1.34%), behind Christianity (67%) and Judaism (2.07%).
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Islamic Center of America
The Islamic Center of America (Arabic: ٱلْمَرْكَز ٱلْإِسْلَامِيّ فِي أَمْرِيكَا, al-Markaz al-ʾIslāmīy Fī ʾAmrīkā) is a mosque located in Dearborn, Michigan, in the United States.
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Italian Americans
Italian Americans (italoamericani) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry.
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Jain Center of Greater Phoenix
Jain Center of Greater Phoenix (JCGP) is a Jain temple in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Jamaican Americans
Jamaican Americans are an ethnic group of Caribbean Americans who have full or partial Jamaican ancestry.
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Jamestown, Virginia
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
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Japanese Americans
are Americans of Japanese ancestry.
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Jeffersonian democracy
Jeffersonian democracy, named after its advocate Thomas Jefferson, was one of two dominant political outlooks and movements in the United States from the 1790s to the 1820s.
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Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination.
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Jewish Federations of North America
The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), formerly the United Jewish Communities (UJC), is an American Jewish umbrella organization for the Jewish Federations system, representing over 350 independent Jewish communities across North America that raise and distribute over $2 billion annually, including through planned giving and endowment programs, to support social welfare, social services and educational needs.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
Jim Crow laws
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African American.
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Juan Ponce de León
Juan Ponce de León (1474 – July 1521) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading the first official European expedition to Puerto Rico in 1508 and Florida in 1513.
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Judaism
Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.
Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.
Kingdom of Kongo
The Kingdom of Kongo (Kongo Dya Ntotila or Wene wa Kongo; Reino do Congo) was a kingdom in Central Africa.
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Korean Americans
Korean Americans are Americans who are of full or partial Korean ethnic descent.
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Korean language
Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent.
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Languages of the United States
The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English), which is the de facto national language.
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Latin America
Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.
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Law of the United States
The law of the United States comprises many levels of codified and uncodified forms of law, of which the most important is the nation's Constitution, which prescribes the foundation of the federal government of the United States, as well as various civil liberties.
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Liberalism
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.
Liberty!
Liberty! The American Revolution is a six-hour documentary miniseries about the Revolutionary War, and the instigating factors, that brought about the United States' independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.
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List of Christian denominations
A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity, identified by traits such as a name, organization and doctrine.
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List of islands in the Pacific Ocean
The Pacific islands are a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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Lord Kitchener Wants You
Lord Kitchener Wants You is a 1914 advertisement by Alfred Leete which was developed into a recruitment poster.
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Los Angeles County, California
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles (Condado de Los Ángeles), and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States, with 9,861,224 residents estimated in 2022.
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Louisiana
Louisiana (Louisiane; Luisiana; Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.
Louisiana Creole people
Louisiana Creoles (Créoles de la Louisiane, Moun Kréyòl la Lwizyàn, Criollos de Luisiana) are a Louisiana French ethnic group descended from the inhabitants of colonial Louisiana before it became a part of the United States during the period of both French and Spanish rule.
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Madagascar
Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.
Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Lower 48.
Mainline Protestant
The mainline Protestant churches (sometimes also known as oldline Protestants) are a group of Protestant denominations in the United States and Canada largely of the theologically liberal or theologically progressive persuasion that contrast in history and practice with the largely theologically conservative Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Charismatic, Confessional, Confessing Movement, historically Black church, and Global South Protestant denominations and congregations.
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Majority minority
A majority-minority or minority-majority area is a term used to refer to a subdivision in which one or more racial, ethnic, and/or religious minorities (relative to the whole country's population) make up a majority of the local population.
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Making North America
Making North America is a 2015 American documentary film which premiered nationwide on November 4, 2015.
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Mali Empire
The Mali Empire (Manding: MandéKi-Zerbo, Joseph: UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. IV, Abridged Edition: Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century, p. 57. University of California Press, 1997. or Manden Duguba; Mālī) was an empire in West Africa from 1226 to 1670.
Malibu, California
Malibu is a beach city in the Santa Monica Mountains region of Los Angeles County, California, about west of Downtown Los Angeles.
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Mandinka people
The Mandinka or Malinke are a West African ethnic group primarily found in southern Mali, The Gambia, southern Senegal and eastern Guinea.
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Martín de Argüelles
Martín de Argüelles Jr.
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Mason–Dixon line
The Mason–Dixon line is a demarcation line separating four U.S. states, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia.
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Melting pot
A melting pot is a monocultural metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" with a common culture; an alternative being a homogeneous society becoming more heterogeneous through the influx of foreign elements with different cultural backgrounds, possessing the potential to create disharmony within the previous culture.
Member states of the Arab League
The Arab League has 22 member states.
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Membership statistics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (United States)
This page shows the membership statistics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) within the United States.
Mestizo
Mestizo (fem. mestiza, literally 'mixed person') is a person of mixed European and Indigenous non-European ancestry in the former Spanish Empire.
Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans (mexicano-estadounidenses, mexico-americanos, or estadounidenses de origen mexicano) are Americans of Mexican heritage.
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.
Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau.
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Migration Policy Institute
The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) is an American non-partisan think tank established in 2001 by Kathleen Newland and Demetrios G. Papademetriou.
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Model minority
The term model minority refers to a minority group, defined by factors such as ethnicity, race, or religion, whose members are perceived to be achieving a higher socioeconomic status in comparison to the overall population average.
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Modern Language Association
The Modern Language Association of America, often referred to as the Modern Language Association (MLA), is widely considered the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature.
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Mulatto
Mulatto is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry.
Multiculturalism
The term multiculturalism has a range of meanings within the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and colloquial use.
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Multiracial Americans
Multiracial Americans or mixed-race Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of two or more races. The term may also include Americans of mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2020 United States census, 33.8 million individuals or 10.2% of the population, self-identified as multiracial.
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Multiracial people
The terms multiracial people or mixed-race people refer to people who are of more than two ''races'', and the terms multi-ethnic people or ethnically mixed people refer to people who are of more than two ethnicities.
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Music of the United States
The United States' multi-ethnic population is reflected through a diverse array of styles of music.
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National Journal
National Journal is an advisory services company based in Washington, D.C., offering services in government affairs, advocacy communications, stakeholder mapping, and policy brands research for government and business leaders.
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National language
A national language is a language (or language variant, e.g. dialect) that has some connection—de facto or de jure—with a nation.
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National personification
A national personification is an anthropomorphic personification of a state or the people(s) it inhabits.
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Nationalism
Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.
Nationality
Nationality is the legal status of belonging to a particular nation, defined as a group of people organized in one country, under one legal jurisdiction, or as a group of people who are united on the basis of culture.
Native American identity in the United States
Native American identity in the United States is a community identity, determined by the tribal nation the individual or group belongs to.
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.
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Native Hawaiians
Native Hawaiians (also known as Indigenous Hawaiians, Kānaka Maoli, Aboriginal Hawaiians, or simply Hawaiians; kānaka, kānaka ʻōiwi, Kānaka Maoli, and Hawaiʻi maoli) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands.
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Navajo
The Navajo are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.
Negro
In the English language, the term negro (or sometimes negress for a female) is a term historically used to refer to people of Black African heritage.
Nevada
Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.
New Mexico
New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.
New Spain
New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España; Nahuatl: Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain.
New York metropolitan area
The New York metropolitan area, broadly referred to as the Tri-State area and often also called Greater New York, is the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, encompassing.
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Newport, Rhode Island
Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, United States.
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Niger–Congo languages
Niger–Congo is a hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.
Nigerian Americans
Nigerian Americans (Ṇ́dị́ Naìjíríyà n'Emerịkà; Yan Amurka asalin Najeriya; Àwọn ọmọ Nàìjíríà Amẹ́ríkà) are Americans who are of Nigerian ancestry.
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Non-Hispanic whites
Non-Hispanic Whites or Non-Latino Whites are White Americans classified by the United States census as "white" and not Hispanic.
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North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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North Carolina
North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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Northeastern United States
The Northeastern United States, also referred to as the Northeast, the East Coast, or the American Northeast, is a geographic region of the United States located on the Atlantic coast of North America.
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Northern America
Northern America is the northernmost subregion of North America as well as the northernmost region in the Americas.
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Northern Europe
The northern region of Europe has several definitions.
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Northern Mariana Islands
The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI; Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas; Commonwealth Téél Falúw kka Efáng llól Marianas), is an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States consisting of 14 islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Northern United States
The Northern United States, commonly referred to as the American North, the Northern States, or simply the North, is a geographical and historical region of the United States.
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Norwegian Americans
Norwegian Americans (Norskamerikanere) are Americans with ancestral roots in Norway.
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Notes on the State of Virginia
Notes on the State of Virginia (1785) is a book written by the American statesman, philosopher, and planter Thomas Jefferson.
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Oak Park, Illinois
Oak Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, adjacent to Chicago.
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Oath of Allegiance (United States)
The Oath of Allegiance of the United States is the official oath of allegiance that must be taken and subscribed by every immigrant who wishes to become a United States citizen.
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Oceania
Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
Office of Management and Budget
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP).
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Official language
An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.
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Ojibwe
The Ojibwe (syll.: ᐅᒋᐺ; plural: Ojibweg ᐅᒋᐺᒃ) are an Anishinaabe people whose homeland (Ojibwewaki ᐅᒋᐺᐘᑭ) covers much of the Great Lakes region and the northern plains, extending into the subarctic and throughout the northeastern woodlands.
Oyo Empire
The Oyo Empire was a Yoruba empire in West Africa.
Pacific Islander
Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, Pacificans, or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the Pacific Islands.
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Pacific Islander Americans
Pacific Islander Americans (also colloquially referred to as Islander Americans) are Americans who are of Pacific Islander ancestry (or are descendants of the indigenous peoples of Oceania or of Austronesian descent).
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Paleo-Indians
Paleo-Indians were the first peoples who entered and subsequently inhabited the Americas towards the end of the Late Pleistocene period.
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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (Pedro (Menéndez) d'Avilés; 15 February 1519 – 17 September 1574) was a Spanish admiral, explorer and conquistador from Avilés, in Asturias, Spain.
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Peopling of the Americas
The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the Last Glacial Maximum (26,000 to 19,000 years ago).
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Perpetual foreigner
The perpetual foreigner, forever foreigner or perpetual other stereotype is a racist or xenophobic form of nativism in which naturalized and even native-born citizens (including families that have lived in a country for generations) are perceived by some members of society as foreign because they belong to a minority ethnic or racial group.
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Personal income in the United States
Personal income is an individual's total earnings from wages, investment interest, and other sources.
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Peruvian Americans
Peruvian Americans are Americans of Peruvian descent.
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Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center (also simply known as Pew) is a nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley Peters, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly (– December 5, 1784) was an American author who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry.
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Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona, with 1,608,139 residents as of 2020.
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Polish Americans
Polish Americans (Polonia amerykańska) are Americans who either have total or partial Polish ancestry, or are citizens of the Republic of Poland.
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Polynesia
Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.
Population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Population figures for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas prior to European colonization have been difficult to establish.
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Poverty in the United States
In the United States, poverty has both social and political implications.
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Poverty thresholds (United States Census Bureau)
For statistical purposes (e.g., counting the poor population), the United States Census Bureau uses a set of annual income levels, the poverty thresholds, slightly different from the federal poverty guidelines.
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Pre-Columbian era
In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Protestantism in the United States
Protestantism is the largest grouping of Christians in the United States, with its combined denominations collectively comprising about 43% of the country's population (or 141 million people) in 2019.
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Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island.
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Public holidays in the United States
In the United States, public holidays are set by federal, state, and local governments and are often observed by closing government offices or giving government employees paid time off.
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Public Radio International
Public Radio International (PRI) was an American public radio organization.
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Puerto Ricans
Puerto Ricans (Puertorriqueños), most commonly known as '''Boricuas''', but also occasionally referred to as Borinqueños, Borincanos, or Puertorros, are an ethnic group native to the Caribbean archipelago and island of Puerto Rico, and a nation identified with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico through ancestry, culture, or history.
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Puritans
The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of what they considered to be Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant.
Quakers
Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.
Race (human categorization)
Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society.
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Race and ethnicity in the United States
The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population.
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Race and ethnicity in the United States census
In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.
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Rebecca Adamson
Rebecca Adamson (born 1950) is an American businessperson and advocate.
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Reconstruction era
The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of abolishing slavery and reintegrating the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States.
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island (pronounced "road") is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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Roanoke Island
Roanoke Island is an island in Dare County, bordered by the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
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Sahel
The Sahel region or Sahelian acacia savanna is a biogeographical region in Africa.
Salad bowl (cultural idea)
A salad bowl or tossed salad is a metaphor for the way an intercultural society can integrate different cultures while maintaining their separate identities, contrasting with a melting pot, which emphasizes the combination of the parts into a single whole.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah.
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Salt Lake Temple
The Salt Lake Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
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Salvadoran Americans
Salvadoran Americans (salvadoreño-estadounidenses or estadounidenses de origen salvadoreño) are Americans of full or partial Salvadoran descent.
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Samoa
Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono and Apolima); and several smaller, uninhabited islands, including the Aleipata Islands (Nu'utele, Nu'ulua, Fanuatapu and Namua).
Samoan Americans
Samoan Americans are Americans of Samoan origin, including those who emigrated from the United States Territory of American Samoa and immigrants from the Independent State of Samoa to the United States.
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Samoan language
Samoan (Gagana faa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands.
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Samuel Wilson
Samuel Wilson (September 13, 1766 – July 31, 1854) was an American meat packer who lived in Troy, New York, whose name is purportedly the source of the personification of the United States known as "Uncle Sam".
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San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay.
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San Jose, California
San Jose, officially the paren), is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2022 population of 971,233, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area—which in 2022 had a population of 7.5 million and 9.0 million respectively—the third-most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego, and the 13th-most populous in the United States.
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San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan (Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States.
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Scotch-Irish Americans
Scotch-Irish Americans (or Scots-Irish) Americans are American descendants of primarily Ulster Scots people who emigrated from Ulster (Ireland's northernmost province) to the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Scottish Americans
Scottish Americans or Scots Americans (Ameireaganaich Albannach; Scots-American) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Scotland.
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Senegal
Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, (also,; Salone) officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa.
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Sikhism in the United States
American Sikhs form the country's sixth-largest religious group.
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Sikhs
Sikhs (singular Sikh: or; sikkh) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak.
Sioux
The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (Dakota/Lakota: Očhéthi Šakówiŋ /oˈtʃʰeːtʰi ʃaˈkoːwĩ/) are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations people from the Great Plains of North America.
Slavery among Native Americans in the United States
Slavery among Native Americans in the United States includes slavery by and enslavement of Native Americans roughly within what is currently the United States of America.
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Slavery in the United States
The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South.
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Social degeneration
Social degeneration was a widely influential concept at the interface of the social and biological sciences in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Society of the United States
The society of the United States is based on Western culture, and has been developing since long before the United States became a country with its own unique social and cultural characteristics such as dialect, music, arts, social habits, cuisine, and folklore.
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South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
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Southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost region of Africa.
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Southern Europe
Southern Europe is the southern region of Europe.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.
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Spaniards
Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a people native to Spain.
Spanish Americans
Spanish Americans (españoles estadounidenses, hispanoestadounidenses, or hispanonorteamericanos) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly from Spain.
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Spanish Inquisition
The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition (Inquisición española), was established in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile.
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Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Spanish language in the United States
Spanish is the second most spoken language in the United States.
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Spanish-based creole languages
A Spanish creole (criollo), or Spanish-based creole language, is a creole language (contact language with native speakers) for which Spanish serves as its substantial lexifier.
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Sports in the United States
Sports in the United States are an important part of the nation's culture.
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St. Augustine, Florida
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Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).
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Stateside Puerto Ricans
Stateside Puerto Ricans (Puertorriqueños en Estados Unidos), also ambiguously known as Puerto Rican Americans (puertorriqueño-americanos, puertorriqueño-estadounidenses), or Puerto Ricans in the United States, are Puerto Ricans who are in the United States proper of the 50 states and the District of Columbia who were born in or trace any family ancestry to the unincorporated US territory of Puerto Rico.
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Stereotypes of Americans
Stereotypes of American people (here meaning citizens of the United States) can today be found in virtually all cultures.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.
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Suffrage
Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote).
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
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Swedish Americans
Swedish Americans (Svenskamerikaner) are Americans of Swedish descent.
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Tagalog language
Tagalog (Baybayin) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language by the majority.
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Tejanos
Tejanos are descendants of Texas Creoles and Mestizos who settled in Texas before its admission as an American state.
Territories of the United States
Territories of the United States are sub-national administrative divisions overseen by the federal government of the United States.
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Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.
The Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the U.S. state of Maryland and provides coverage of local, regional, national, and international news.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, tracing its roots to its founding by Joseph Smith during the Second Great Awakening.
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The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, founded in 1947, is committed to preserving a documentary heritage of the religious, organizational, economic, cultural, personal, social and family life of American Jewry.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Thirteen Colonies
The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
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Tongan Americans
Tongan Americans are Americans who can trace their ancestry to Tonga, officially known as the Kingdom of Tonga.
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Top hat
A top hat (also called a high hat, or, informally, a topper) is a tall, flat-crowned hat traditionally associated with formal wear in Western dress codes, meaning white tie, morning dress, or frock coat.
Touro Synagogue
The Touro Synagogue or Congregation Jeshuat Israel (קהל קדוש ישועת ישראל) is a synagogue built in 1763 in Newport, Rhode Island.
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Tribe (Native American)
In the United States, an American Indian tribe, Native American tribe, Alaska Native village, Indigenous tribe or Tribal nation may be any current or historical tribe, band, or nation of Native Americans in the United States.
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Trinidadian and Tobagonian Americans
Trinidadian and Tobagonian Americans (also known as Trinidadian Americans, Tonagonian Americans and Trinbagonian Americans) are people with Trinidadian and Tobagonian ancestry or immigrants who were born in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Turkish Americans
Turkish Americans (Türk Amerikalılar) or American Turks are Americans of ethnic Turkish origin.
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Twin Cities PBS
Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. (abbreviated TPT, doing business as Twin Cities PBS) is a nonprofit organization based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, that operates the Twin Cities' two PBS member television stations, KTCA-TV (channel 2.1) and KTCI-TV (channel 2.3), both licensed to Saint Paul.
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U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report (USNWR, US NEWS) is an American media company publishing news, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.
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Ukrainian Village, Chicago
Ukrainian Village is a Chicago neighborhood located on the near west side of Chicago.
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Unchurched Belt
The Unchurched Belt is a region of the US that has low rates of religious participation.
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Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam (which has the same initials as United States) is a common national personification of the federal government of the United States or the country in general.
Unitarian Universalism
Unitarian Universalism (otherwise referred to as UUism or UU) is a liberal religious movement characterized by a "free and responsible search for truth and meaning".
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States census
The United States census (plural censuses or census) is a census that is legally mandated by the Constitution of the United States.
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United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
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United States nationality law
United States nationality law details the conditions in which a person holds United States nationality.
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United States Virgin Islands
The United States Virgin Islands, officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States.
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Unity Temple
Unity Temple is a Unitarian Universalist church in Oak Park, Illinois, and the home of the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation.
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Upland South
The Upland South and Upper South are two overlapping cultural and geographic subregions in the inland part of the Southern United States.
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Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Vietnamese Americans
Vietnamese Americans (Người Mỹ gốc Việt) are Americans of Vietnamese ancestry.
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Vietnamese language
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language.
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Virginia Dare
Virginia Dare (born August 18, 1587; disappeared 27 August 1587) was the first English child born in an American English colony.
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Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom was drafted in 1777 by Thomas Jefferson in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and introduced into the Virginia General Assembly in Richmond in 1779.
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Visual art of the United States
Visual art of the United States or American art is visual art made in the United States or by U.S. artists.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Between 1492 and 1504, the Italian navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus led four transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain to the Caribbean and to Central and South America.
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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Welsh Americans
Welsh Americans (Americanwyr Cymreig) are an American ethnic group whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Wales, United Kingdom.
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West Africa
West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.
West Indian Americans
Caribbean Americans or West Indian Americans are Americans who trace their ancestry to the Caribbean.
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Western culture
Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
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Western Europe
Western Europe is the western region of Europe.
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Western Hemisphere
The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian—which crosses Greenwich, London, England—and east of the 180th meridian.
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Western United States
The Western United States, also called the American West, the Western States, the Far West, and the West, is the region comprising the westernmost U.S. states.
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White Americans
White Americans (also referred to as European Americans) are Americans who identify as white people.
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Wilmette, Illinois
Wilmette is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
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Yoruba people
The Yoruba people (Ọmọ Odùduwà, Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire) are a West African ethnic group who mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo.
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1990 United States census
The 1990 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 248,709,873, an increase of 9.8 percent over the 226,545,805 persons enumerated during the 1980 census.
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2000 United States census
The 2000 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 census.
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2010 United States census
The 2010 United States census was the 23rd United States census.
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2020 United States census
The 2020 United States census was the 24th decennial United States census.
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23andMe
23andMe Holding Co. is an American personal genomics and biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California.
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