United States

The United States is a country located in North America that has 50 states.

History
The American Revolution was the first successful colonial war of independence against a European power. Americans had developed a democratic system of local government and a an ideology of "republicanism that held government rested on the will of the people (not the king), which strongly opposed corruption and demanded civic virtue. They demanded their rights as Englishmen and rejected British efforts to impose taxes without the approval of colonial legislatures. The British insisted and the conflict escalated to full-scale war in 1775, the American Revolutionary War. On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress, convening in Philadelphia, established a Continental Army under the command of George Washington. Proclaiming that "all men are created equal" and endowed with "certain unalienable Rights", the Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, drafted largely by Thomas Jefferson, on July 4, 1776. That date is now celebrated annually as America's Independence Day. In 1777, the Articles of Confederation established a weak government that operated until 1789.

List of states (in no particular order)

 * 1) Delaware
 * 2) Alaska
 * 3) Alabama
 * 4) Colorado
 * 5) Tennessee
 * 6) Texas
 * 7) Georgia
 * 8) Connecticut
 * 9) Maine
 * 10) Nebraska
 * 11) California
 * 12) Nevada
 * 13) Louisiana
 * 14) New Mexico
 * 15) Arizona
 * 16) Rhode Island
 * 17) Montana
 * 18) Idaho
 * 19) Washington
 * 20) Florida
 * 21) Utah
 * 22) Wyoming
 * 23) Wisconsin
 * 24) West Virginia
 * 25) Virginia
 * 26) North Carolina
 * 27) South Carolina
 * 28) Maryland
 * 29) Ohio
 * 30) Kansas
 * 31) Arkansas
 * 32) Oklahoma
 * 33) New York
 * 34) Vermont
 * 35) New Hampshire
 * 36) Kentucky
 * 37) Hawaii
 * 38) North Dakota
 * 39) South Dakota
 * 40) Mississippi
 * 41) Oregon
 * 42) Minnesota
 * 43) Michigan
 * 44) Massachusetts
 * 45) Illinois
 * 46) Indiana
 * 47) Iowa
 * 48) New Jersey
 * 49) Pennsylvania
 * 50) Missouri