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 1934.

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.

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 declare and acknowledge 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.