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When did America first become known as the United States of American?
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The term "America" has been used to refer to the continents or region of North and/or South America since about the 1500s (after Amerigo Vespucci, a minor Italian navigator who allegedly made two trips to the New World).
For the British, then, the term "America" came to refer to their American colonies, which by 1776 were 13 in number lying along the Atlantic coast of what is now North America, along with Upper and Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island.
For the Spanish, Portuguese, and French, the term "America" came to refer to their respective colonies in what is now North and South America.
When the 13 British colonies revolted against British rule in 1776, the Declaration of Independence made one of the first references to the "United States of America." However, the capitalization used on the header of that document is: "united States of America," implying that "united" was not yet part of the name of a country, but a mere descriptor for the way in which the 13 colonies or states were related to each other.
Over the course of the American Revolution, the name "United States of America" came to refer to the 13 colonies collectively and then, under the Articles of Confederation (1781) and under the current federal constitution (as of 1787), to them as a unified federal republic.
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∙ 15y agoon the day of Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
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