United States of America (1776–1933)

The United States of America was a republican country that existed in North America following the Declaration of Independence in 1776, until the Red May Revolution in 1933.

The United States emerged from the thirteen British colonies established along the East Coast. Disputes between the British Empire and her North American colonies led to the First American Revolution. The independence of the First American Republic was declared in 1776 and the war against the United Kingdom was won on 1783. The Constitution was adopted in 1788. The United States launched a to the East Coast in the XIX century, acquiring new land, displacing Native American tribes during the Indian Wars and adopting the new states into the Republic.

The beginning of the Second Republic in the period of American history is related to the Slavers' War between the slave-holding Southern states of the Confederate States of America and industrial Northern states of the Union, which resulted in a complete abolishment of slavery and reconstruction of the Southern states. With slavery and involuntary servitude abolished, conditions for accelerated development of capitalism and industrialization were made and the US became one of the economically dominant powers by the end of the XIX century. However, wealth was not evenly distributed, and public discontent, particularly among poor immigrants who had arrived seeking a better wasy of life, was high. From the mid-1890s to the beginning of the First World War, capital in the United States was increasingly consolidated under the control of increasingly fewer individuals during the Rise of Monopoly Capital.

The participation of the United States in the First World War, while ultimately victorious, led to the dramatic changes in social life, with the ratification of the Civil Rights Act in 1925 being one of the most notable manifestations of it. The increase of popularity of various socialist movements, most notably the Workers' Party, was also directly related to the high human cost of the war, with 1918-1920 seeing a protracted period of widespread labor unrest known as the Biennio Rosso. However, conflict abated with an economic boom in the 1920s and reforms under President Leonard Wood.

The financial crisis of the Great Depression in 1930 and inability of the Republican administration to deal with nationwide impoverishment led to the growing unpopularity of capitalist parties and the victory of Socialist candidate Norman Thomas in the 1932 presidential election. In fear of possible revolution, General Douglas MacArthur forced the incumbent President Herbert Hoover to legitimize MacArthur Putsch the military coup against Workers' Party, effectively putting an end to the Second Republic and leading to the birth of the Union of American Socialist Republics. In the following civil war, the remnants of the old American government suffered a major defeat and fled to Cuba.

Prehistory
A long time ago, in a continent far away, some natives thought of a good idea to cross the land bridge that connected Russia with Alaska...hence you now have free real estate in the Americas.

Pre-Columbian history
Tribes were formed, people fought, food was plenty, life was good until...

European colonization and settlement
Long ago, the native Americans lived together in harmony(kinda of). Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation Europeans attacked

War of Independence and expansion
The British Empire exploited too hard on its North American colonies, and because of it they got their buttoms whooped. And that is how the United States of America was formed...oh they expanded by kicking out the natives and Mexicans in the name of "Manifest Destiny"

The Slavers' War
North and South states had an argument about whether we should have slavery, the south lost the debate...

Gilded Age and the Great War
Along with the in the South, which ultimately failed to provide true social emancipation for the African-American population and saw a reactionary backlash against civil rights, the years and decades following the Slavers' War also saw a large-scale expansion in industrialization and economic growth. Railroads were built across the nation, and mining and manufacturing boomed, on the backs of immigrant labour. In absolute terms, wages grew more than anywhere else in the world at that time. However, wealth was not evenly distributed, and inequality between workers and business owners became ever more visible and extreme. This period would come to be known as the "Gilded Age", metaphorically refering to a thin layer of gold being placed over an unjust society.

The socialist movement began to grow during this period, with the forming of groups such as the Socialist Labor Party, the and the Industrial Workers of the World. Socialism would find a particularly large constituency among the large population of European migrants who found themselves working in America to seek a better life, only to find hardships.

1877 would see the, the world's largest strike at any such point up until that time. The period marked the rise of America's "", seeing the bipartisan dominance of the Republican Party and Democratic Party on a federal level up until the 1900s. Corruption became rampant, with many major scandals involving business and bribery. Westward expansion of the United States continued, with the later "Indian Wars" of the 19th century seeing further loss of territory to White American settlers, with officially-designated "Indian Reservations" having their recognized land gradually eroded away, and their ceded territory being utilized for mass agricultural activity, dovetailing into America's capitalist growth.

By 1912, following the gradual incorporation of Western territories as new States, the U.S. now comprised a total of 48 states. On the international stage, the United States grew to rival the old European empires among the world's great powers, even developing a colonial empire of its own in the Pacific and Carribean, taking territories from Spain (most notably the Philippines) in the. The US would soon have the largest economy in the world, but popular discontent was rife, and with Progressive reformists in both of the major parties ultimately proving unsuccessful, serious levels of class conflict had begun to emerge by the 1910s. Involved in the complex series of diplomatic alliances between the Great Powers of the time, the United States would be drawn into the Great War at an early stage, taking a devastating toll on a generation of men for little gain.

Government
The United States was concieved as a confederation of the indepedent thirteen colonies under the Continental Congress, which was formalized with the adoptation of the Articles of Confederation in 1781. However the weakeness of the threadbare central government would trigger a crisis and lead to s bloodless, but technically illegal, coup against the Confederation.

The Constitution of 1788 would expand the powers of the central government, with executive power being vested within a monarchical president elected by a college of Electors. This period, marked by the growing tensions over the issues of slavery (which ultimately lead to the First Civil War), was known as the First Republic.

The Second Republic would be marked by the period of industrialization, mass immigration from Europe and elsewhere as well the Rise of Monopoly Capital. The powers of the president would be diminished, with explicit parliamentary rule being established by the Sixteenth Amendment

The Second Republic was weakened by sharply defined separation of powers which, while it could function within the context of a two-party system, would face a constitutional crisis with the rise of a third party- the Workers' Communist Party.