Welcome to the United States! In it there are 50 states. Each state has it’s own flag, it’s own animal, and even it’s own flower!

Population: 330,000,000

Number of states or territories: 50

 When the English first settled in America in the early 1600s, the “United” states were just colonies of England. In the American Revolution, America won it’s independence. But in was only 13 states long. Third president Thomas Jefferson bout a huge piece of land from France, what we call the Midwest, with states like Illinois and Iowa. But they didn’t know much about the land, so they made an expedition. The 1800s for America was all about trying to push the frontier all the way to the pacific. California joined when a person found gold and that attracted many people. The was called the Gold Rush. The next year, California was voted to become a state. Then the Civil War hit. The south states went off America to form their country. Slavery was illegal now, but that didn’t stop segregation. It was that African-Americans couldn’t get as much good stuff as whites; one example is that they couldn’t even go to the same schools! In World War II, Japan bombed the military center at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; and that forsed them to join the war. In the 1960s, people worked hard to end segregation. Martin Luther King Jr. finally ended it with a speech in 1963.