Because the name "United States of America" produces the adjective "American." If Canada were to rename itself the "Canadian Provinces of America," its citizens might also become "Americans." (And if the US had shortened its name to "United States," its citizens might have become known as Statesians or Uniteds.)
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Usage over time has resulted in the term Americans for citizens of the US. Canada and Mexico are included in the term North Americans. And the term America's refers to all of North and South America.
Because they were. The loyalist left and the people who were in the newly formed US were Americans.
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The Native Americans were considered a foreign nation to the United States and the US Army fought them in the last quarter of the 1800s in order to use their lands for westward expansion.
Yes, people can vote in the U.S. but only Americans can vote if they are 18 or older.
Because they were. The loyalist left and the people who were in the newly formed US were Americans.
The terms "Americans" or "American colonists" were used by the British way back when the USA was only a colony of Britain. After the USA was formed, people living in this new country continued to be referred to as Americans. So American people did not choose to call themselves that. If anyone presumed that people in the territory of what is now the USA were the only "Americans," then it was the British. The term is not exclusively used by US citizens either. Many other countries refer to US Citizens as "Americans" also.
No. That would violate the principle of separation of powers. The only people who are considered Senators are those duly elected to the US Senate.
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There is no American-occupied war zone in which the natives gain US citizenship by virtue of occupation.Another answerOf course not, or are all the Iraqi people Americans?!
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Americans.
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US = U.S.A. = United States of America They are called Americans