Imagine that it is he year 2030 and you are a history textbook author. describe for your readers the u. s. population in the year 2018

By  population the United States of America in 2018 was the third largest country in the world, with 327,270,588 habitants in september 2018. The largest state in the USA population is California, which is estimated to be home to just over 39.5 million people and its largest cit New York City with an impressive estimate of 8.5 million habitants. The population of the United States grows continuedly driven by a high level of inmigration. This makes the country's racial profile vastly diferent, although whites remained to be the single largest racial group in the US. The average life expectancy of a person born in the United States by 2018 is 79.05 years, as is common in most countries in the world, women have a higher life expectancy than men. Allthough the United States, in 2018, had the largest overall economy in the world, it does not have the highest GDP per capita, it ranked 19th in the world. The language most commonly speaking is English, followed by Spanish and Chinese. The cultural diversity of the United States is no more evident than in the wide range of religious beliefs practiced across the country. Protestant/ Christian tradition is clearly mayority, and a significant minority identifies as having no religion at all. Young people make up the majority of this group.

the expansion of the rule of empires over other territories took place as a result of several reasons including economic, ethnocentric, political, and religious, and exploratory purposes.

in terms of economic purposes: imperial governments aimed to maximize profits and with that purpose they neeeded cheap labor, access to or control of markets to sell or buy products. they also desired to find natural resources (precious metals and land). in the awake of   industrial revolution, dependent colonies provided the necessary raw materials that european factories and market needed to manufacture products.  

ethnocentric: many territories were conquered by imperial territories in an attempt to spread their cultures, values and belief as they considered them to be superior. in the late 19th century, for example, european powers held   the racist belief that inferior races should be conquered in order to “civilize” them.

political: another reason that drove conquer and expansion was patriotism and growing imperial power. it refers to national prestige, pride, and security. empires sought strategic territory to ensure access for their navies and armies around the world.

religious: the aim of converting new member of other religions was another factor that prompted expansion.   christian missionaries from europe established churches in conquered territories during the nineteenth century. thus, they spread western cultural values. furthermore, the imperial nation’s language was spread as well, through educational and religious interactions.

exploratory: imperial nations or their citizens aimed to explore territory that was unknown to them,   for different purposes including medical or scientific research, however, at the very   beginning, they did it to embark on adventure. furthermore, imperial explorers sought to discover, map, and claim territory before their imperial competition did, for national and personal glory as well as to realize the imperialist goal of expansion.

answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

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