United States

United States, or United States of America, or U.S., or U.S.A., or America

MICROPAEDIA
MACROPAEDIA
BRITANNICA BOOK OF THE YEAR 1995 [Ref 1], [Ref 2], [Ref 3]
BRITANNICA BOOK OF THE YEAR 1994 [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
STATISTICAL INFORMATION: see BRITANNICA BOOK OF THE YEAR
major refs. in North America [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
agriculture and fishing
- farm management [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
  - animal husbandry
  - annual losses
  - buildings [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
  - cereal cultivation
  - dairy cattle feed
  - egg production
- history [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
  - livestock and poultry [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - meat production
- pecans
- research
- shark, ray, and chimaera uses
- soybean use
- tenant farming
- trout and salmon
- viticulture
art and architecture
- architectural design
  - colonial
  - cupola
  - Gothic Revival
  - Greek Revival
  - modern [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - Neoclassical
  - Second Empire style
- art collecting
- art conservation and restoration
- art forms
  - armorial bearings [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - caricature [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - colonial metalwork [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - folk [Ref 1], [Ref 2], [Ref 3]
  - hallmarks
  - Pop art
  - pottery [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
- dance
- garden and landscape design
- glassmaking [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - South Jersey glass
- interior design
  - dressers
  - floral decoration [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - furniture [Ref 1]; [Ref 2] passim to [Ref 3]
  - rugs and carpets
- motion-picture history [Ref 1]; [Ref 2] passim to [Ref 3]
  - documentary films
- music
- painting
- practice and profession [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
- printmaking history
- sculpture
- theatre [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - acting styles
  - comedic style
  - directing styles
  - musical
  - production [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - subsidy
commerce, industry, and mining
- airline industry [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
- cements
- chemical products
- fossil fuels [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
- hotel industry
- internal and external trade [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
- international trade [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
- iron production, reserves, and trade
- manufacturing and production
- organization of work [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - operations research
  - service industries
- public enterprise
- regulatory agencies
- supermarkets
- trucking industry
- vending machines
communications
- book publishing [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
- broadcasting [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
- censorship
- magazines [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
- news agency [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
- newspapers [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
- postal system
  - airmail delivery
- satellite communication [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
constitution: see Constitution of the United States of America [Cross ref]
customs and traditions
- amateur genealogical work
- cemeteries
- dress
- eating habits
- hunting
- names [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
Declaration of Independence text
economics, finance, and currency
- banks and banking [Ref 1]; [Ref 2] passim to [Ref 3]
- business organization [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
- chamber of commerce
- gold standard
- government budgets
- government control [Ref 1]; [Ref 2] passim to [Ref 3]
- labour economics [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
- markets
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- taxation [Ref 1]; [Ref 2] passim to [Ref 3]
- theory and practice
- transportation
education [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
- academic freedom
- academies
- economics
  - student aid
  - teachers' status
- elementary education
- Library of Congress
- minority education
- open classroom
- pedagogy
  - monitorial system
  - rhetoric
- requirements for teachers
- resource material
  - dictionaries
  - encyclopaedias
- retraining programs
- scholarship
- schools
- social aspects
  - American Indians
  - Plains Indians
- systems
flag
- state flags: see individual states by name
- U.S. flag: see Stars and Stripes [Cross ref]
government
- administration
  - archives
  - borough
  - county
  - municipality
  - Panama Canal
  - public administration and civil service [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]; [Ref 3] passim to [Ref 4]
  - township
- administrative offices
  - city manager
  - mayor
- bicameral system
- cabinet government
- comparison with Australian government
- diplomacy [Ref 1], [Ref 2], [Ref 3]
- foreign service
- history
- intelligence operations and organization [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
- law
  - attachment
  - capital punishment
  - constable
  - courts of law
  - education and practice [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - extraterritoriality
  - impeachment
  - passport
  - patent system
  - petition rights
  - police system [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
  - probate
  - trademark
- Pledge of Allegiance text
- politics
  - Australian ballot
  - caucus
  - conservatism
  - constitutionalism
  - lobbying
  - machine politics
  - majority rule
  - parties [Ref 1]; [Ref 2] passim to [Ref 3]
  - radicals
  - special-interest groups
  - two-party system
- presidential office
- public relations
- purchasing procedures
- revenue sharing
- social programs
- theories
- Tocqueville's view
health and welfare
- breast-feeding
- dentistry
- insurance [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - social insurance
  - unemployment insurance
- medicine
- refuse disposal
history
- Alabama claims
- Alien and Sedition Acts
- annexation
- balance of power
- Cold War and its demise [Ref 1]; [Ref 2] passim to [Ref 3]
  - Berlin blockade and airlift
  - containment
  - Cuban missile crisis
  - Marshall Plan [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
  - Truman Doctrine [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
- conflicts
  - Bay of Pigs invasion
  - beginnings of East-West division
  - Bering Sea Dispute
  - Bleeding Kansas civil war
  - Civil War: see American Civil War [Cross ref]
  - Lundy's Lane Battle
  - Mexico [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
  - Spanish-American War
  - Trent Affair
  - U-2 affair
  - Veracruz incident
  - Vietnam War
  - War of 1812: see 1812, War of [Cross ref]
  - War of Independence: see United States War of Independence [Cross ref]
- Congregationalism
- heraldry
- Indian relations
- international relations
  - Afghanistan [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
  - Armenia
  - Australia [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
  - Austria [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
  - Bermuda
  - Bolivia
  - Bulgaria
  - Burkina Faso
  - Cambodia
  - Canada [Ref 1], [Ref 2], [Ref 3] passim to [Ref 4]
  - Caribbean
  - Central America
  - Chile [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
  - China [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - Colombia
  - Colombo Plan
  - Costa Rica
  - Cuba [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]; [Ref 3] passim to [Ref 4]
  - Czechoslovakia
  - Dominican Republic [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
  - Egypt
  - El Salvador
  - Eritrea
  - Ethiopia [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
  - France
  - Germany
  - Greece [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
  - Grenada
  - Guatemala [Ref 1]; [Ref 2], [Ref 3]
  - Honduras
  - Iceland
  - India [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
  - Iran [Ref 1]; [Ref 2], [Ref 3]
  - Iran-Iraq war
  - Israel [Ref 1]; [Ref 2], [Ref 3]
  - Italy
  - Jordan
  - Korea [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]; [Ref 3] passim to [Ref 4]
  - Kuwait
  - Latin America
  - League of Nations
  - Lebanon
  - Liberia [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
  - Libya
  - Mexico [Ref 1]; [Ref 2] passim to [Ref 3]
  - Micronesia
  - Monroe Doctrine
  - New Zealand
  - Nicaragua [Ref 1]; [Ref 2] passim to [Ref 3]
  - Palau
  - Palestine [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - Panama [Ref 1]; [Ref 2] passim to [Ref 3]
  - Paraguay
  - Persian Gulf War
  - Philippines [Ref 1]; [Ref 2], [Ref 3]
  - Point Four Program
  - pre-World War I era [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - pre-World War II era [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - Romania
  - Ryukyu Islands
  - Saudi Arabia
  - Somalia
  - Spain [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
  - Sweden
  - Taiwan [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
  - Thailand [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - Turkey
  - United Kingdom
  - United Nations [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
  - U.S.S.R. [Ref 1]; [Ref 2], [Ref 3]
  - Venezuela
  - Vietnam [Ref 1]; [Ref 2] passim to [Ref 3]
  - Virgin Islands
  - West Indies [Ref 1]; [Ref 2] passim to [Ref 3]
  - Zanzibar trade treaty
- Pacific Islands [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2], [Ref 3]
  - American Samoa
  - Guam [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
  - Kiritimati Atoll
  - Mariana Islands
  - Marshall Islands [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
  - Micronesia [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
  - ocean exploration
  - Palau
  - South Pacific Commission
  - Tuvalu
  - Wallis and Futuna
  - Western Samoa
- police system
- political philosophy
- trade
  - African slave [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
  - Open Door policy
  - smuggling
- treaties and agreements
- West Florida Controversy
- World War I [Ref 1]; [Ref 2] passim to [Ref 3]; [Ref 4] passim to [Ref 5]
- World War II [Ref 1]; [Ref 2] passim to [Ref 3]; [Ref 4] passim to [Ref 5]
  - Battle of the Atlantic
  - Casablanca Conference
  - Dumbarton Oaks Conference
  - Hitler
  - Japan [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
  - Leyte Gulf
  - Midway Battle
  - Nisei
  - Oder-Neisse Line
  - Pearl Harbor
  - Potsdam Conference
  - Quebec Conferences
  - strategy and tactics [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
  - Tehran Conference
  - Yalta Conference
- for an outline of the history of the United States see PROPAEDIA: Sections 964; 965; 971; 973
labour and management
- apprenticeship
- child labour
- closed shops
- general strike
- hours of labour
- mediation
- Mexican migrants
- migrant labour
- peonage
- trade unionism [Ref 1]; [Ref 2], [Ref 3]
language
- Black English
- literacy
legal system: see American law [Cross ref]
literature: see American literature [Cross ref]
military affairs
- ANZUS Pact
- arms control
- conscription
- developments
  - air-cushion machines
  - attack aircraft
  - chemical weapons
  - global logistics
  - nuclear weapons [Ref 1]; [Ref 2], [Ref 3]
  - radar
  - strategic-weapons systems
- negotiations
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- nuclear weapons strategy
- personnel
physical geography
- Alpine permafrost
- climate
  - economic impact
  - weather patterns
- features
- geographic centre of the contiguous states
- karst terrain
- mountain ranges
- national parks
- tectonics
  - Devonian Period deposits
  - paleolakes
  - rare-earth elements [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
population and demography
- distribution
  - Indian communities [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - sub-Arctic Indians
- migration and immigration
  - Canadian
  - Cape Verdian
  - colonial immigration
  - ethnic groups
  - Europeans
  - melting pot theory
  - minorities
  - Mormon
  - territorial expansion [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
religion
- Buddhism [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
- Christian missions
- church-state separation
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- ecumenism
  - corporate inclusive worship
- Islam
- Judaism
- Protestantism [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - Congregationalism
  - Lutheranism
  - Mennonites
  - Pentecostalism
  - Puritanism
  - Reformed and Presbyterian churches
  - Unitarianism and Universalism [Ref 1]; [Ref 2], [Ref 3]
- rescue missions
- Roman Catholicism [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
- Sunday observance
- tithes
science and technology
- automotive industry
- aviation and space
  - aerospace industry [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - exploration
  - helicopters
  - Martian exploration
  - Moon exploration
  - rocketry
  - space station
  - Wright brothers' flights
- bioengineering guidelines
- coinage
- construction
  - canals and waterways [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
  - expressways [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
  - prefabricated building systems
  - roads and highways [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
  - tunnels
- developments
  - Fulton's steamboat
  - geographic knowledge
  - machine tools
  - typography
  - weights and measures [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
- electronic music production
- government laboratories
- processes
  - bakeries
  - plastics and resins
  - synthetic rubber [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
  - unnilquadium
- societies
  - American Association for the Advancement of Science
  - National Academy of Sciences
social issues
- animal rights
- crime
- differentiation and status
  - aliens
  - elderly people [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
  - ghettos
  - racial inequality [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
  - slavery [Ref 1]; [Ref 2] passim to [Ref 3]
  - Southwest American Indians
  - women's liberation movement
- patterns
  - alcohol consumption [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - birth control [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - drug problems [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
  - prostitution
  - sexual behaviour [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
- penology
  - prison development
  - prison population
- population
- social welfare services
- temperance movement
sports and recreation
- archery
- association football
- athletics
- automobile racing
- baseball
- basketball
- bowling
- boxing [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
- camping
- Canadian football
- circus history
- Cribbage
- dog racing
- dog shows
- football
- gambling
- golf [Ref 1] passim to [Ref 2]
- jai alai
- lacrosse
- lottery
- Poker
- polo
- rackets
- rugby
- swimming
- tennis
- yacht racing
state: see state government and individual states by name [Cross ref]
transportation
- air-traffic control
- airplanes
- automobile [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]
- canals
- coal transport
- freight pipelines [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
- mass transit [Ref 1]; [Ref 2]; [Ref 3]
- railroads
  - Metroliners
  - rail traffic control
- shipping [Ref 1], [Ref 2]
- steam land transportation
- steamboats
see also regions, states, cities, physical features, historical events, and significant persons by name