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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 ...
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.
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 United States of America was formed after thirteen British colonies in North America declared independence from the British Empire on July 4, 1776. In the Lee Resolution, passed by the Second Continental Congress two days prior, the colonies resolved that they were free and independent states.
Jay founded the New York Manumission Society in 1785, for which Hamilton became an officer. They and other members of the Society founded the African Free School in New York, to educate the children of free blacks and slaves. When Jay was governor of New York in 1798, he helped secure and signed into law an abolition law; fully ending forced ...
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 ...
Jefferson largely wrote the Declaration of Independence in isolation between June 11, 1776, and June 28, 1776, from the second floor of a three-story home he was renting at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia, now called the Declaration House and within walking distance of Independence Hall. [60]
The Department of the Interior took shape during the administrations of Taylor and Fillmore, having been created just days prior to Taylor's inauguration. The department was widely criticized as being an opportunity for political patronage. [citation needed] California was admitted as a state in 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850.