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When did the United States claim the name ‘America’?
- On Labor Day, President Donald Trump posted maps relabeling New Mexico as "New America," following his recent executive order renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America."
- Historically, the term "America" first appeared on a 1507 world map, but US leaders assertively claimed the name for their own nation after the 1898 war with Spain.
- Early American leaders considered various alternatives, as "Columbia" was once a popular name used in patriotic songs like "Hail Columbia," historian Daniel Immerwahr noted.
- Many Latin Americans continue to understand "America" to mean the entire hemisphere, rather than just the United States, a perspective writers like Eduardo Galeano and José Martí long championed.
- Though "America" has been shorthand for the United States for generations, it originally described continental landmasses, which the United States accounts for only a quarter of by area.
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A few weeks before President Donald Trump proposed renaming New Mexico "New America," he ordered Lake Ontario to be named "Lake America."
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