ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief historical background and a description of major events in United States of America. It also provides basic political, economic, and social data arranged in the following categories: polity, economy, population, purchasing power parities, life expectancy, ethnic groups, capital, political rights, civil liberties, and status. The chapter discusses the progress and decline of political rights and civil liberties in United States of America. The United States has a vibrant and highly competitive political system. In electing a president, the United States uses a unique system that combines a popular vote and the ballots cast by an electoral college. The United States has a vibrant and highly competitive political system. In electing a president, the United States uses a unique system that combines a popular vote and the ballots cast by an electoral college. On September 11, the United States of America was the target of the most devastating terror attack in the country's history.
