1845: Slaveholding Texas is annexed into the United States, sparking the Mexican War. By 1848, Mexico cedes more than half of its territory to the U.S., including New Mexico and California in ...

The Gulf of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America for Google Maps users in the United States ... than a million places in U.S. territory. The system's new description for the Gulf, an ocean ...

The capital of USA is Washington D.C. The United States of America consists of 50 states, a federal district and 5 major territories. Each state has a separate governor. The mainland USA consists ...