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During the American Revolution and right after it, the United States was much more loosely organized than it is today. Each state had more power than the United States as a whole. In other words, the government was not centralized. That government structure was set in 1781. The paper outlining that government is called the Articles of Confederation.
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In the Eastern cities of the United States, an immigration boom had begun. Southern and Eastern Europeans, especially Italians, and Slavs, including many Jews fleeing Russian pogroms, joined Irish refugees to become a cheap labor force for the country's growing industrialization. Many Southern African-Americans fled rural poverty for the relative security of industrial jobs in the North. Other immigrants, including many Scandinavians and Germans, moved to the now-opened territories in the West and Midwest, where land was available for free to anyone who would develop it. A network of railroads crisscrossed the country, allowing faster movement of people and materials, and ... accelerating development.
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The United States has failed to comply with its obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Subjects detailed in the report include the failure of federal authorities to inform individual states of their obligations under the treaty, the discriminatory treatment of Haitian refugees by the US, and policies that have the effect of denying health care to many African-Americans with HIV/AIDS. In addition, the report presents new data collected by Human Rights Watch demonstrating that racial disparities in the sentencing of children to life in prison without possibility of parole are more pronounced than the US has acknowledged to date.
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The social structure of the United States is somewhat stratified, with a significant class of very wealthy individuals, which are often alleged to hold disproportionate cultural and political influence. However, social mobility is a well-known concept in America, considered part of the "American dream", in that even someone born into a poor family can rise to join the upper classes. How often this actually occurs is a matter of debate. The nation's Gini coefficient of 40.8 percent (measuring income inequalities) is the third highest of all developed nations (after South Africa and Mexico).
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Since the late 1940s, more internationally mobile students have studied in the United States than in any other host country. This trend continues to the present day, with over half a million international students enrolled in its colleges and universities. Almost 60% of these students come from Asia, and about 40% come from four Asian countries (India, Japan, China, and Korea). For more details about the larger numbers of Americans receiving credit for study abroad who are not necessarily counted in host country statistics, see the Open Doors data. For information about United States as a place of origin for international students please click here. For trend data for previous years, visit Open Doors online.
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Orlando, Fla./November 3, 2006/PRNewswire/—The United States is currently in the midst of the largest home- rebuilding effort in history. According to the American Red Cross, 850,791 housing units were damaged, destroyed left inaccessible in the wake of the costliest—and one of the deadliest—hurricanes in the history of this country.
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