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How did our country get the name United

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While the colonies may have established it, “America” was given a name long before. America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were part of a separate continent.
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Please refer to the attachment, today I ain't in a mood to write it down on paper;)

How did our country get the name United-example-1
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