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North America [r]: The third largest continent, location of three large nations Canada, the United States, and Mexico. ^[e]

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Pacific Mountain System [r]: Add brief definition or description
Intermontane Plateaus [r]: Add brief definition or description
Rocky Mountain System [r]: Add brief definition or description
Interior Plains [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Great Plains [r]: A large area of semi-arid grasslands located east of the Rocky Mountains and west of the Mississippi River and extending from Texas northwards into southern Canada. ^[e]
Ozark-Ouachita Highlands [r]: Add brief definition or description
Gulf-Atlantic Plain [r]: Add brief definition or description
Appalachian Highlands [r]: Add brief definition or description

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Constitution

U.S. Constitution [r]: The document defining the fundamental purpose and structure of the United States government; it became effective in 1789. ^[e]
Declaration of Independence [r]: Add brief definition or description

Government

President of the United States of America [r]: Head of State of the United States of America; elected through an electoral college; appointer of cabinet members and federal judges (with Senate confirmation) ^[e]
- Vice President of the United States of America [r]: A U.S. official who runs for election as an adjunct to the President, who presides over the Senate, and who would assume the Presidency in case of a vacancy in that office, ^[e]
- National Security Council [r]: Both the senior foreign policy committee of principal officers of the executive branch of the United States of America, chaired by the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and, by extension, the professional staff reporting to the Assistant ^[e]
- United States cabinet [r]: The most senior committee of the executive branch of the United States government. ^[e]
U.S. Congress [r]: The legislature of the United States federal government, comprising the House of Representatives and the Senate. ^[e]
- U.S. House of Representatives [r]: The lower house of the United States Congress. ^[e]
- U.S. Senate [r]: The upper house of the United States Congress. ^[e]
- General Accountability Office [r]: This organization is the semi-independent internal auditing agency of the U.S. government. ^[e]
- Library of Congress [r]: The world's largest library, which has a division that provides research for the U.S. Congress; although the United States has no official library, the Library of Congress has the role in practice, especially as a cataloging authority and containing the Copyright Office ^[e]
Supreme Court of the United States [r]: The final federal court of appeals in the U.S., consisting of nine Justices. ^[e]

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+== See also ==
+*[[Government of the United States of America]]
+*[[Social Security in the USA]]
+*[[Languages of the United States of America]]
+*[[United States of America/Catalogs/States and Territories|U.S. States and Territories]]
+*[[United States of America/Catalogs/Presidents|Catalog of U.S. Presidents]]
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Geography and physiography

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History

Colonial America

Revolution and early national periods

Ante Bellum

Civil War and Reconstruction

Gilded Age

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