Question USA history

[alrot]

Back in 1776 were these states of British? I mean after they after declaration independence did they became independent countries? ,they were call States of the union ,A union of a country name United States? or a deal among each other?
I know my question is confusing what exactly were these states ,Independent Countries? part of a country name Mexico? or France with Louisiana ,Like Aruba and Curacao that today belongs to Holland?
between 1776 and 1900 were those independent countries decided to be part of a single nation?

I have always ask myself this question and just found this on youtube,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLdQ4DUnnw4
yes that horn is annoying

I better explain my self
See this as and example,Venezuela also had and Independence day April 19 1810
and after that It becomes and independent country Before that was a Spanish colonies
Colombia had it too in April 20 1810 and becomes independent new country and not a colonies  from Spain (we also had our Washington hero which fought and release 6 countries, all independent countries today

[Apex]

I googled 'Declaration of Independence'.

from Wikipedia:
"The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration is a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. The birthday of the United States of America

[alrot]

we have almost the same history ,see I fix up above and change the word province to Colonies (the wall of language :-/ you know)
we also have many wars against Spain to earn our independence in each colonies or part of territories

[Steve M]

[quote]I googled 'Declaration of Independence'.

from Wikipedia:
"The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration is a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. The birthday of the United States of America

[patchz]

Mexico never thought the Texas territory was
an independent republic. Mexican American war...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2 ... erican_War


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alamo

Apparently, they still don't.

[specter177]

We didn't fight Spain until the Spanish -American War in 1899 (or so) but that was for Cuba and the Philippines (and Puerto Rico?), not any current state. We bought Florida from Spain, Texas won its own independence from Mexico, we won most of California, Arizona and New Mexico from Mexico after the Mexican-American War, and bought the rest of California, Arizona, and New Mexico from Mexico later. Most of the rest of the country, including Washington, was bought from France in the Louisiana Purchase.

Before 1776 we were 13 colonies of Great Britain, when we declared independence. Then we became 13 separate states with their own governments, under a central government in Philadelphia. We still had to write a constitution and win the war of independence, but we were basically an independent country by that point. I think France recognized us as such before 1783.

[WebbPA]

United States Declaration of Independence

The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire ...

Articles of Confederation

[quote]The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, customarily referred to as the Articles of Confederation, was the first constitution of the United States of America and specified how the national government was to operate. The Second Continental Congress appointed a committee to draft the Articles in June 1776 and sent the draft to the states for ratification in November 1777.

[H]

As I've stated somewhere here in the past years, we're 50 united countries of various sizes... along with some acquired territories. Hmmn... maybe we should have let T. Roosevelt remain atop San Juan.

8-)