United States

The United States of America, or simply the United States, is a sovereign state in central North America and currently the foremost military and hegemonic power in the world.
It originated from the secession of Thirteen Colonies of British North America in protest against the United Kingdom. With their victory in the American Revolution, the colonies were able to firmly establish themselves as a new federal republic known as the United States of America.
As the United States became a global superpower, its government and military has been the means of enforcing Abstergo's will. On its behalf, it invaded Iran, Guatemala, and Chile, and backed the dissolution of the Russian Parliament.
==History==
===Early history and the French and Indian War===
The "Thirteen Colonies" were the colonial possessions of the Kingdom of Great Britain, situated on the eastern coast of North America, during the early 17th century. Sandwiched between French Canada and the Spanish , the Thirteen Colonies represented, for a long time, the entirety of Great Britain's colonial territories.
In 1754, the Seven Years' War erupted in Europe, inevitably leading to conflict between the colonial territories; the French and Indian War. This ended in 1763, and saw the original Thirteen Colonies joined by the newly annexed territories of French Louisiana and Florida.Assassin's Creed: Rogue
===American Revolutionary War===
During the 18th century, the thirteen colonies of Britain in the New World revolted against their British oppressors and raised an army, which would be referred to as the Continental Army. The Continental Congress promoted George Washington to its Commander-in-Chief, and in 1775, the American Revolutionary War began between the Continental Army and British Army, due to high taxation, and, to a lesser extent, little Parliamentary representation. On July 4, 1776, the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, therefore founding the United States.
In the shadows of the conflict, the Assassins and Templars waged a secret war on both sides of the Revolution. Ratonhnhaké:ton, an Assassin originally hailing from the Kanien'kehá:ka tribe, allied himself with Washington, Samuel Adams and other leaders of the American revolutionaries to continue his own personal conflict with the Templars, who fought on both sides of the conflict. 
In 1783, the Continental Army under Washington stood victorious over their British adversaries, and the two nations signed the , securing the independent existence of the United States of America.Assassin's Creed III
===American Civil War===
Between 1861 and 1865, the nation fell into civil war when eleven southern states seceded as the Confederate States over the issue of slavery and states' autonomy. The remaining states, collectively known as the Union, was led by President Abraham Lincoln to a victorious reunification of the country, but he was assassinated by Templar-affiliate John Wilkes Booth at the end of the war.Assassin's Creed II – Glyph 15: "Guardians"
===The rise of American industry===
By the end of the 19th century, the United States had emerged as a leading center of industrial and technological innovation. No man better exemplified this status than Thomas Edison, a prolific inventor and businessman. Unknown to all but a few, Edison was a Templar, and used his influence and connections to ensure his own financial success and discredit his opponents, particularly his fellow inventor Nikola Tesla.
As Tesla intended to supply many American households with unlimited electricity, with the aid of an Apple of Eden, Edison and the Templars used whatever means they could in order to take it from his hands and turn it against him. Later on, this Apple found its way into the hands of another titan of American industry, Henry Ford.Assassin's Creed II - Glyphs
Ford, along with another Templar, Ransom Olds, revolutionized modern manufacturing through the perfection of the assembly line. As such, it allowed automobiles to be produced at a cost affordable enough for the middle-class American to own, but it also practically guaranteed Templar control of the American economy for the foreseeable future.Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - Rifts
By 1910, Ford, Olds, and their fellow Templars put into place a plan designed to ensure their control of not only the United States, but of the entire world through political, military, and economic means. In 1937, these same Templars, along with sitting President (and fellow Templar) Franklin D. Roosevelt, founded Abstergo Industries as a front for their organization,Assassin's Creed: Revelations - Abstergo Files which remained a relatively anonymous corporation until the last decades of the 20th century.
===War for the presidency===
Since its introduction, the Assassins and Templars waged a secret political struggle to gain control over the United States via its Presidency. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first known Templar to assume the Presidency, and in the process, he obtained the same Apple of Eden that Washington wielded nearly two centuries before him. Following this, Roosevelt co-founded Abstergo Industries alongside several other Templars in 1937, and orchestrated World War II along with Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler.
On 8 February 1957, Assassins Boris Pash and Alekseï Gavrani infiltrated Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., in order for Pash to visit and see his old friend, John von Neumann. Within moments, Pash retrieved the Apple of Eden as von Neumann died in the process.Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone — Book 1
In 1961, John F. Kennedy assumed the office of the American Presidency and did not share the Templars' and Abstergo's goals. When Kennedy planned a joint venture to the Moon – where an Apple of Eden was located – with the Soviet Union, the Templars planned Kennedy's assassination. On 22 November, Kennedy was shot by the Templar sleeper agent Lee Harvey Oswald whilst the President was driving through Dallas, Texas. 
Kennedy's driver and Secret Service agent, William Greer, who was secretly an Assassin trained by Pash in the Bloodstone Unit, stole the Apple that belonged to Kennedy in the confusion that ensued. However, he was met by Gavrani, who bested in combat and took the Apple from him. Afterwards, Gavrani handed the Apple to his boss, William King Harvey, a fellow Assassin. However, Harvey turned out to be a double agent, working for the Templars.Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone — Book 2 After Kennedy's death, the Vice President and secret Templar Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the office.
The 37th President, Richard Nixon, was a Templar puppet and was influenced into supporting the deposition of the Democratically-elected Chilean President, Salvador Allende. Allende was subsequently replaced by Augusto Pinochet, another pawn of Abstergo.
Gerald Ford, who succeeded Nixon, was also influenced by the Templars, who used his government cabinet to support the military junta of Argentina. Under the rule of the junta, American corporations transferred their debt to the people of Argentina, and thousands of its opponents were killed.
During the late 1990s, the Assassins and Templars were engaged in a solely political war for the Presidency, with the Assassins supporting candidate Al Gore and the Templars using George W. Bush as their puppet. On 6 November 2000, the Templar sleeper agent Daniel Cross met with the Mentor of the Assassins, and, following a subconscious command implanted into his mind by Warren Vidic, killed him forthwith. Daniel later returned to Abstergo Industries in Philadelphia, where he was experimented on during his youth,Assassin's Creed: The Fall - Issue #3 and was tortured into revealing the locations of the Assassin hideouts he had visited.
Following this, it allowed the Templars to initiate the "Great Purge", which was a scheme designed to eradicate the Assassin hideouts specified. With the Mentor dead and the Assassins in disarray,Assassin's Creed: The Fall - Epilogue the Templars were successful in placing George W. Bush in the Presidential office. By 2010, the Templars still held influence over the Presidency.AbstergoIndustries.com By 2014, the Order has a Grand Master in the United States.Assassin's Creed: Unity
==Alternate timeline==
In an alternate timeline created by an Apple of Eden, Washington's newly-formed Kingdom of the United States brutally ruled over the former British colonies with the help of his allies, Benedict Arnold, Israel Putnam, and Benjamin Franklin. Washington had planned to extend his holdings into Europe, starting with an invasion of Britain, but this reality was short-lived due to the arrival of Ratonhnhaké:ton and the death of Washington.Assassin's Creed III - The Tyranny of King Washington
==Behind the scenes==
The Thirteen Colonies did not make up the entirety of the British holdings on the Eastern American coastline. There were at least seven other colonies; Newfoundland, Rupert's Land (the area around the Hudson Bay), Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, East Florida, West Florida, and the Province of Quebec that did not rebel during the American Revolutionary War.
==Gallery==
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==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed II 
*Assassin's Creed: The Fall 
*Assassin's Creed III
**Benedict Arnold
**The Tyranny of King Washington
*Assassin's Creed: Forsaken
*Assassin's Creed: Pirates 
*Assassin's Creed: Rebellion 
*Assassin's Creed (comic)
*Assassin's Creed: Templars
*Echoes of History 
*Assassin's Creed: Uprising
*Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies
*Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone
*Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
*Assassin's Creed: Nexus VR
*Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game 
*Assassin's Creed: Visionaries 
==References==
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