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|dissolved=[[United Republic of North America]]<ref name="enc285">''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]'', Earth, p. 284-285, (2009); p. 296-297 (2011 edition)</ref>

The '''United States of America''',{{Ref/Novel|Halo: Contact Harvest|Chapter=1}}{{Ref/Reuse|enc285}} also known as the '''United States''', was a former [[National government|nation]] of [[Earth]]. "America" and "American" are also terms used in reference to the United States.{{Ref/Novel|Id=harvestchapt2|Halo: Contact Harvest|Chapter=2}} The nation, along with [[Canada]] and [[Mexico]], were reorganized into the [[United Republic of North America]].

In [[1775]],<ref name="encyctimeline">''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]'', Timeline, p. 31</ref> the [[Wikipedia:United States Marine Corps|United States Marine Corps]] was founded, elements of which would be passed down to the [[UNSC Marine Corps]].{{Ref/Reuse|encyctimeline}}<ref name="halowarsbarracks">''Halowars.com'', UNSC - Barracks ([https://web.archive.org/web/20090312142038/http://www.halowars.com/GameInfo/barracks.aspx Warback Machine archive] and [[Archive:Halowars.com/UNSC#Barracks|Halopedia archive]])</ref>

During [[World War II]], [[Wikipedia:Isoroku Yamamoto|Isoroku Yamamoto]] crippled the US [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] [[fleet]] at [[Wikipedia:Pearl Harbor|Pearl Harbor]].{{Ref/Novel|Halo: Silent Storm|Chapter=4}}

At the end of the 20th-century, America was considered in a financial bubble.<ref name="tilatpdopjc">''Halo: Evolutions'', [[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]</ref> By [[1996]], US [[Wikipedia:Apollo 14|Apollo 14]] astronaut [[Wikipedia:Edgar Mitchell|Edgar Dean Mitchell]] was the 6th human being to have walked on [[Luna]].{{Ref/Site|URL=http://206.16.223.63/members.html|Site=Society of the Ancients|Page=Members|Detail=|D=22|M=11|Y=2007}}

The United States in the first years of the 21st-century served as the inspiration for a strategy and ethos the [[United Nations]] would use in the 22nd-century.<ref name="encyc42-43">''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]'', Human Colonization of Space, p. 42-43 (2009 & 2011 edition)</ref> In [[2004]], [[Melissa (AI)|Melissa]], an [[Artificial intelligence]] from [[2552]], hijacked a portion of the US payphone infrastructure. This resulted in payphone calls by her to [[Alaska]], [[Kentucky]] and [[Wikipedia:Montana|Montana]].{{Ref/Site|Id=sixdegrees|URL=http://ilovebees.blogspot.com/2004/09/six-degrees-of.html

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Soil issues plagued the Midwestern United States, causing many American farmers to leave [[Earth]] favoring colonization.<ref>'''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''', ''Page 116 (Digital)''</ref>

From [[2468]], [[Religion|Lutheran]] Americans of Germanic descent would colonize [[Harvest]].<ref>''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]'', Human Colonies, p. 286-287 (2009); p. 298-299 (2011 edition)</ref>

By [[2524]],{{Ref/Reuse|harvestchapt2}} the political remnants of the United States would go on to be a part of the [[United Republic of North America]].{{Ref/Reuse|enc285}} The United States Marine Corps would at some point become defunct as well.<ref>''Halo Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Halo Universe: The Definitive Guide to the Halo Universe'', Unified Ground Command, p. 54-55 (2011 edition)</ref> Despite this reorganization, former U.S. citizens still identified as American nationals.{{Ref/Novel|Halo: Contact Harvest|Chapter=2}}

==Geography==

Chicago was a part of a region of the United States known as the [[Wikipedia:Midwestern United States|American Midwest]]. The United States was also composed of entities called "states".{{Ref/Reuse|harvestchapt2}}

===Locations===

*[[Lake Michigan]]

==Government and society==

The midwestern United States had an "inflectionless nonaccent".<ref>''[[Halo: Evolutions]]'', [[Blunt Instruments]]</ref>