The history of the United States from 1776 to 1789 was marked by the nation's transition from the American Revolutionary War to the establishment of a novel constitutional order.
Declaration of Independence, an 1819 portrait by John Trumbull, shows the Committee of Five submitting its draft of the Declaration of Independence to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
Preamble through Article V of the Articles of Confederation
The Constitutional Convention was convened in the old Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, now known as Independence Hall.
A one dollar continental banknote in 1776
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The United States of America, also known as the United States or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal capital distri
History of the United States (1776–1789)
…of a novel constitutional order. 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…
Cliff Palace, a settlement of ancestors of the Native American Pueblo peoples in present-day Montezuma County, Colorado, built between c. 1200 and 1275
U.S. marines raise the American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima (1945). This photo became one of the most honored images of World War II.
Civil rights activists during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C. in August 1963