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Why is the US the US?

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After the American Civil War the northern and southern states were united and we called them, prosaically, the United States

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About 90 years earlier, in the Declaration of Independence, representatives from thirteen British colonies on the mainland of North America, unilaterally and collectively declared their colonies as states (countries, in modern terminology), independent of the British monarchy and government. That document is titled "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America" (note the capitalization).

Immediately after issuing the declaration, the Continental Congress drafted a document, the Articles of Confederation, which formalized the government as a perpetual union of sovereign states. The first article defined the name, "The United States of America", which has been used ever since.

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