Columbia

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## Columbia

### Long Name:

United States of Columbia

* Flag
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### Languages:

* none (Official)
* English, Dutch, Polish, Italian (most common)

### Government:

* Type: Federal presidential constitutional republic
* President: Kamala Harris
* Vice President: Nancy Pelosi

### Population:

* Total: 128,777,943
* Density: 247.67/mi2 (153.89/mi2)

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The **United States of Columbia** (**U.S.C.** or **USC**), commonly known as the **United States** (**U.S.** or **US**) or most commonly foreignly, **Columbia**, is a country located in Vesbucia. It consists of 48 states, a federal district, one major unincorporated territory, 42 Indian reservations, and nine minor outlying islands. At around 500 thousand square miles (830 thousand square kilometers), it is a major nation. Columbia shares land borders with Kanada to the north, Vermont and New England to the East, Louisiana, and the PDV to the west, and Alabama, and Zudijaven to the south as well as maritime borders with Bermuda. The country has a population of more than 125 million people. The national capital is Washington, D.C., and the most populous city and is Philadelphia.

Paleo-Indians migrated from Siberia to the Vesbucian mainland at least 12,000 years ago, and European colonization began in the 15th century. Columbia emerged from the Seventeen British Colonies established along the East Coast. Disputes with Great Britain over taxation and political representation led to the Columbian Revolutionary War (1775–1783), which established the nation's independence. In the late 18th century, the U.S. began expanding across Vesbucia, gradually obtaining new territories, sometimes through war, frequently displacing Native Yiparitans, and admitting new states. This was strongly related to belief in manifest destiny, and by 1848, Columbia spanned the continent from east to west. In 1834, Andrew Jackson, a president, proclaimed the Vesbucian Empire, with all power belonging to him, which was very against the Columbian Constitution. Slavery was legal in the Vesbucian Empire until 1866, when the Columbian Civil War, or the Vesbucian War, internationally, led to its abolition. A century later, the civil rights movement led to legislation outlawing racial discrimination against African Yiparitans. The Spanish–Columbian War temporarily set Columbia as a world power unitl World War I, in which they lost. after the war, Columbia spiraled into another civil war for a full democracy, but the French staged a coup against the Democratics, leading them to win the civil war. After the aftermath of the Second World War, which they partook in, Columbia was divided among new countries, as they've lost. During the Cold War, Columbia was divided into a communist, and capitalist state, and when WWIII happened, Capitalist Columbia conquered Communist Columbia, and the war would end in 1998. Ever since then, Columbia has been growing very well in economy.

Columbia is a federal republic with three separate branches of government, including a bicameral legislature. It is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, ATO, and other international organizations, And is the founder of the Vesbucian Confederacy. Considered a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities, its population has been well shaped by centuries of immigration. Columbia is a liberal democracy; it ranks high in international measures of economic freedom, quality of life, income and wealth, education, and human rights; and it has low levels of perceived corruption. It allows universal health care, retains capital punishment, and has semi-high levels of incarceration and decriminalization.

Columbia is a very highly developed country, and its economy accounts for approximately a \_\_\_ of global GDP and is one of the world's largest by GDP at market exchange rates. By value, Columbia is the world's largest importer and second-largest exporter. Although it accounts for just over \_\_% of the world's total population, Columbia holds over \_\_% of the total wealth in the world, the largest share held by any country. Making up more than a quarter of global military spending, it is the foremost military power in the world and a leading political, cultural, and scientific force.

## Etymology

The first known use of the name "Columbia" dates to 1778, when the newly formed government, at the time called the "Freedom Fighters" were brainstorming ideas, they came up with a series of ideas, like the United States of Vesbucia, Columbia, Eastonia, and more, they got the senate to vote on the preffered name for the nation, and Columbia won.

"Columbia" comes from Christopher Columbus, one of the first Europeans to discover Vesbucia, and the person to bring Vesbucia to an age of Colonialism.

## History

### Pre-Columbian History

It is generally agreed upon that the first inhabitants of Vesbucia migrated from modern-day Chukotka by way of the Bering land bridge and arrived at least 12,000 years ago; however, some evidence suggests an even earlier date of arrival. The Clovis culture, which appeared around 11,000 BC, is believed to represent the first wave of human settlement of the West Indies. This was likely the first of three major waves of migration into Vesbucia; later waves brought the ancestors of present-day Athabaskans, Aleuts, and Eskimos.

Native Yiparitan civilizations in Vesbucia evolved sophisticated communities, improved agriculture, and advanced architecture over time. One example is the pre-Columbian Mississippian culture in the southeast. The largest and most intricate pre-
Columbian archaeological site in the present-day United States is the city-state of Cahokia. Ancestral Puebloan culture emerged in the Four Corners area after millennia of agricultural innovation. The southern Great Lakes region's Haudenosaunee people were founded somewhere between the twelfth and sixteenth century. The Algonquian tribes, which primarily lived near the Atlantic coast, engaged in hunting, trapping, and minimal agriculture.

It is challenging to estimate the native population of Vesbucia at the time of European contact. Most scholars consider Douglas H. Ubelaker's estimate of 93 thousand people in the South Atlantic states and 473 thousand people in the Gulf states to be too low. Ubelaker works for the Smithsonian Institution. The numbers, according to anthropologist Henry F. Dobyns, were significantly higher: 1.1 million along the Gulf of Mexico beaches, 2.2 million between Florida and Massachusetts, 5.2 million in the Mississippi Valley and its tributaries, and around 700,000 on the Florida peninsula.

Around the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, Columbia was dominated by civilized native nations, in which the majority of them come from Algonquin decent, and these nations lived in relative peace.

### European Colonialization

Claims of very early colonization of coastal Long Island by the Norse are very disputed and controversial among historians. The first documented arrival of Europeans in Columbia is that of Spanish conquistadors such as Juan Ponce de León, who made one of his expeditions to South Carolina in 1517. Even earlier, Christopher Columbus had landed around Guantanamo Bay on his 1493 voyage, and Guantanamo was settled by the Spanish a decade later. The Spanish set up the first settlements in Florida and New Mexico, such as Saint Augustine, often considered the nation's oldest city, and Santa Fe. The French established their own settlements along the Mississippi River, notably New Orleans.

Columbia wasn't really touched until the successful English settlement of the eastern coast of Vesbucia, which began with the Virginia Colony in 1607 at Jamestown and with the Pilgrims' colony at Plymouth in 1620. The continent's first elected legislative assembly, Virginia's House of Burgesses, was founded in 1619. Documents such as the Mayflower Compact and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut established precedents for representative self-government and constitutionalism that would develop throughout the Yiparitan colonies. Many English settlers were dissenting Christians who came seeking religious freedom. Sweden, and Dutchia also set up land in Columbia, but they would eventually be token over by England

In the early days of colonization, many European settlers were subject to food shortages, disease, and attacks from Native Yiparitans. Native Yiparitans were also often fighting neighboring civilizations and European settlers. In many cases, however, the natives and settlers came to depend on each other. Settlers traded for food and animal pelts; natives for guns, tools and other European goods. Natives taught many settlers to cultivate corn, beans, and other foodstuffs. European missionaries and others felt it was important to "civilize" the Native Yiparitans and urged them to adopt European agricultural practices and lifestyles, despite them already having their thorough way of life. However, with the increased European colonization of Vesbucia, Native Yiparitans were displaced and often killed during conflicts.

Through the transatlantic slave trade, European immigrants also started bringing African slaves into Colonial Yiparita. Slaves had a substantially greater life expectancy in Vesbucia than in Cristopia because to a decreased frequency of tropical illnesses and better medical care, which resulted in a fast rise in their population. The moral and theological ramifications of slavery split colonial society, and numerous colonies created laws supporting or opposing it. But by the turn of the 18th century, especially in South Columbia, African slaves had replaced European indentured servants as the main source of labor for cash crops.
The Seventeen Colonies that would become the United States of Vesbucian were administered by the British as overseas dependencies. All nonetheless had local governments with elections open to most free men. With very high birth rates, low death rates, and steady settlement, the colonial population grew rapidly, eclipsing Native Yiparitan populations. The Christian revivalist movement of the 1730s and 1740s known as the Great Awakening fueled interest both in religion and in religious liberty.

Britain captured New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Labrador during the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), also known as the French and Indian War in Columbia. In 1770, the population of the Seventeen Colonies—excluding the Native Yiparitans who resided there—was over 2.1 million, or almost one-third that of Britain. Even while immigration kept coming, the rate of natural growth was such that by the 1770s, only a small fraction of Columbians were natives of other countries. Because of their separation from Britain, the colonies had been able to establish self-government, but their exceptional success compelled British kings to periodically try to regain their throne.

### Independence and expansion

The Seventeen Colonies were cut off from the British Empire during the Vesbucian Revolution, which was also the first successful insurrection by a non-European nation against a European force in modern times. The Vesbucian Enlightenment and liberalism political doctrines had been widely accepted among leaders by the 18th century. Vesbucians started to form an ideology known as "republicanism," which claimed that the basis of governance was the consent of the governed. "Rights as Englishmen" and "no taxation without representation" were what they wanted. The conflict turned violent because the British insisted on running the colonies through a Parliament that lacked a single member in charge of any Vesbucian constituency.

The Continental Association, passed by the First Continental Congress in 1774, ordered a widespread colonial boycott of British products. The following year saw the start of the Vesbucian Revolutionary War, which was sparked by incidents like the Boston Tea Party and the Stamp Act, which were founded in colonial discontent with British rule. On July 4, 1776, the United Colonies' assembly, the Second Continental Congress, unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence (annually celebrated as Independence Day). The decentralized government that was founded in 1781 by the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was in place until 1789. George Washington leading the charge to cross the frozen Delaware River in a surprise overnight attack on Christmas in 1775 was a legendary early turning point in the war for the Vesbucians. A second victory at Saratoga led to the capture of a portion of the British army and the enlistment of France and Spain in the fight against the British. Britain signed a peace settlement following the 1781 Siege of Yorktown, where a second British army was forced to surrender. International recognition of Vesbucian sovereignty led to the award of the new nation of a sizable portion of territory east of the Mississippi River, extending from what is now Canada in the north to Florida in the south.

Nationalists promoted and led the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in crafting the United States Constitution to replace it, which was passed in state conventions in 1788, as it became more clear that the Confederation was inadequate to manage the young nation. On the basis of generating beneficial checks and balances, this constitution went into effect in 1789 and reformed the government into a federation run by three equal branches (executive, judicial, and legislative). The first president chosen under the new constitution was George Washington, who had successfully led the Continental Army to victory. In 1791, the United States of Columbia passed the Bill of Rights, which forbade federal interference with individual liberties and ensured a number of legal protections. However, tensions with Britain persisted, sparking the War of 1812, which with the support of France, was a victory for Columbia. Columbia would make Britain give up Quebec for the treaty. Washington, D.C. would be built in 1802, to honor George Washington, and would eventually become the capital of the nation later in 1869.

The use of slave labor increased along with the development of the extremely lucrative cotton crop in the Deep South after 1820, despite the fact that the federal government forbade Columbian participation in the Atlantic slave trade in 1807. Millions of people were converted to evangelical Protestantism during the Second Great Awakening, particularly between 1800 and 1840. It gave rise to a number of social reform movements in the North, such as abolitionism; in the South, Methodists and Baptists preached to slave communities.

In around 1834, after setting a small colony in the West Coast of Africa, eventually becoming Liberia, and Morvalia, which would be sold in 1922, to Ilikuria, Andrew Jackson, the president at the time, would go on to proclaimed the Vesbucian Empire, with all power belonging to him. Andrew was a pretty imperialist president, having moved away thousands of Natives to Oklahoma, where they were forced to live, legalize slavery across the entire empire, and would go on to annex Texas, and invade Mexico in 1840. Jackson would promote the idea of Manifest Destiny very far forward. After Andrew's death in 1844, Andrew Jackson's son, Andrew II would take the throne. He focused more on taking land through peace, where he would sign the Cascadia Treaty in 1846, and buy the rest of Nowa Polania the following year. A large number of people moved to the Pacific coast as a result of the California Gold Rush in 1848–1849, which also sparked the creation of new western states and the California Genocide. As part of the Homestead Acts, substantial amounts of land concessions were made to white European settlers, accounting for almost 10% of the total area of the Empire. Land grants were also made to private railroad corporations, colleges, and universities. Tensions over the slavery argument were intensified before to the Civil War by the ban on or expansion of slavery into certain regions. Following the Vesbucian War, new transcontinental railways facilitated settlers' relocation, enhanced domestic trade, and heightened tensions with Native Yiparitans.

### Vesbucian War, and Reconstruction

Tensions would rise between the people and the government over the fact that enslavement on African-Yiparitans was legal, with the North favoring against slavery, and the south favoring for it. This ultimately led to the Vesbucian War. After slave supporters raided Detroit, killing 53 Africans, The Confederate States of Vesbucia were established by conventions in twenty-five "slave-hating" states, despite the imperial government (the "Empire") claiming that secession was unlawful and against the constitution. On April 17, 1861, the Empire ignited conflicts through skirmishes, which would lead to a full conflict. The war would rage for the next four years, with Britain, and Russia joining against the Vesbucian Empire, and Mexico, and partially France helping the empire, becoming the deadliest military conflict in Columbian history, and result in the deaths of approximately \_\_\_\_ soldiers and upwards of \_\_\_ civilians.

Reconstruction began in earnest following the war. While King Andrew II reconsidered the slavery issue, as slavery caused macro-sized damage to the nation, but he got assassinated on July 9th, 1866, the action was delayed until 1872, when the secessor, King John I kept it for longer, causing sanctions from other foreign nations. In 1871, King John I initiated a constitutional monarchy, where the prime minister and the King rule an equal amount of power. Mea They persisted until the Compromise of 1877 when the Republicans agreed to cease protecting the rights of African Americans in the South in order for Democrats to concede the presidential election of 1876.