About amrican history?

Question

why other country called america uncle Sam?

Answer 1

During World War II, Uncle Sam was a symbol to all Americans. He was a bearded man dressed in red, white, and blue, the colors of the American flag, and was most often pictured on signs and billboards that read "Uncle Sam wants YOU!!"" in an effort to recruit young men into the military. Thus the title Uncle SAM became synonymous with America.

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Answer 2

Other countries did not call America Uncle Sam. This is a character who was made up. It is a cartoon man dressed patriotically, he was originally designed to high light recruitment posters during the war. The people call the United States the US and so a name was given the character with those initials Uncle Sam.

Answer 3

Calling the US government "Uncle Sam" came about because federal goods were marked "property of US", and one of the major suppliers was named Sam, usually Uncle Sam...so they began to call the Federal government Uncle Sam.
The cartoon character came later to put a face to the nickname.

Answer 4

Uncle Sam was a character created in Troy, N.Y. around the time of the War of 1812

From Wikipedia:
Common folklore holds origins trace back to soldiers stationed in upstate New York, who would receive barrels of meat stamped with the initials U.S. The soldiers jokingly referred to it as the initials of the troops' meat supplier, Samuel Wilson of Troy, New York. The 87th United States Congress adopted the following resolution on September 15, 1961: "Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives that the Congress salutes Uncle Sam Wilson of Troy, New York, as the progenitor of America's National symbol of Uncle Sam." A monument marks his birthplace in Arlington, Massachusetts, and a monument marks his burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, New York. The first use of the term in literature is seen in an 1816 allegorical book, The Adventures of Uncle Sam in Search After His Lost Honor by Frederick Augustus Fidfaddy, Esq., also in reference to the aforementioned Samuel Wilson.

Another theory suggests that Uncle Sam was a creation by Irish immigrants to the U.S. who used the Gaelic acronym, SAM, or Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá, which is the translation for United States of America, as a nickname for their new host country. However, the precise origin of the term may never be proven.
Earlier representative figures of the United States included such beings as "Brother Jonathan," used by Punch magazine. These were overtaken by Uncle Sam somewhere around the time of the Civil War. The female personification "Columbia" has seldom been seen since the 1920s

Answer 5

Don't accept any information from wikipedia, as it is edited by any person for any reason, it can not be trusted, try an actual encylopedia which has its entries written by and peer-reviewed by experts in those specific fields. No school teachers or professors allow wikipedia as a cite reference, except for ones who are too lazy to care about their students.

As to the question, no one calls the USA "Uncle Sam", he is a cartoon compilation of the Spirit of the American people themselves, not the Government and his likeness is used to show the patriotism and independence of the American People.

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Answer 6

it's "slang" for the U.S. (U. ncle S. am)