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United States
The United States is a federal republic in North America that became independent from Britain in 1776 and grew into a major world power. It defeated the Spanish Empire in 1898, acquiring Spain's remaining overseas colonies, and was the principal adversary of the Empire of Japan in the Pacific War. It overtook Britain as the world's leading manufacturing and creditor nation, and accounts of the Brazilian Empire contrast Brazil's peaceful abolition of slavery with the American Civil War.
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