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As a result of the American Revolution, the thirteen British colonies emerged as a newly independent nation, the United States of America, between 1776 and 1789. Fighting in the American Revolutionary War started between colonial militias and the British Army in 1775. The Second Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence on ...
The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776 by John Trumbull. December – The Virginia Legislature incorporates Bath, Virginia now West Virginia. [20] December 5 – Phi Beta Kappa honor society founded at the College of William and Mary.
The portable writing desk on which Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence Declaration House, the reconstructed boarding house at Market and South 7th Streets in Philadelphia, where Jefferson wrote the Declaration in June 1776 The opening of the Declaration's original printing on July 4, 1776, under Jefferson's supervision, engrossed ...
In 1776, the United States declared its independence. Led by General George Washington, it won the Revolutionary War in 1783. The Constitution was adopted in 1789, and a Bill of Rights was added in 1791 to guarantee inalienable rights. Washington, the first president, and his adviser Alexander Hamilton created a strong central government.
In March 1776, aided by the fortification of Dorchester Heights with cannons recently captured at Fort Ticonderoga, the Continental Army led by George Washington forced the British to evacuate Boston. The revolutionaries now fully controlled all thirteen colonies and were ready to declare independence.
[f] [56] [57] The government of Franklin held some control over the area, and petitioned for statehood, receiving support from seven of the nine states required, but would only last a few years. [58] [59] Unofficial change: November 1, 1784 The Congress of the Confederation moved for a short time to Trenton. [25] January 11, 1785
The Province of New Hampshire adopts a constitution for an independent State of New Hampshire, January 5, 1776; The Province of South Carolina adopts a constitution for an independent State of South Carolina on March 15, 1776; The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations declares its independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on ...
The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.