United States of America (Short-lived US)

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Tensions between American colonials and the British during the revolutionary period of the 1760s and early 1770s led to the American Revolutionary War, fought from 1775 through 1781. On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress, convening in Philadelphia, established a Continental Army under the command of George Washington. Proclaiming that "all men are created equal" and endowed with "certain unalienable Rights," the Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, drafted largely by Thomas Jefferson, on July 4, 1776. In 1777, the Articles of Confederation established a weak federal government that operated until 1789. In 1777 Morocco was the very first nation to recognize the sovereignty of a newly independent USA.

After the British defeat by American forces assisted by the French, Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States and the states' sovereignty over American territory west to the Mississippi River. A constitutional convention was organized in 1787 by those wishing to establish a strong national government, with powers of taxation. The United States Constitution was ratified in 1788, and the new republic's first Senate, House of Representatives, and president—George Washington—took office in 1789. The Bill of Rights, forbidding federal restriction of personal freedoms and guaranteeing a range of legal protections, was adopted in 1791. Americans' eagerness to expand westward prompted a long series of Indian Wars and an Indian removal policy that stripped the native peoples of their land. The Louisiana Purchase of French-claimed territory under President Thomas Jefferson in 1803 almost doubled the nation's size.

However, America was stopped in the, fought from 1812 to 1817. This war is seen as an offshoot of the Napoleonic wars. The British were distracted by France in the first three years of war (1812 - 1815), resulting in the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 with no changes in border. The word of peace did not reach the region of the Gulf of Mexico before the Battle of New Orleans, though. The British were victorious in this battle, and the irate Americans declared that Great Britain had broken the treaty. The "anti-revolutionary war", officially declared in February 1815, is seen as a continuation of the War of 1812 by modern historians. The Hundred Days of Napoleon continued to distract the British, allowing the Americans to take small pieces of territory away from British North America, though not New Orleans, which was well fortified. With Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, Britain focused completely on defeating the United States.

The main British Army landed in Montreal in June 1815. The army's focus was on conquering from Montreal to New Orleans. The army reached New York in November. This fired up the Americans even more than before. Little progress was made either way in the winter of 1815 to 1816, but progress continued after the Battle of Trenton. This was a huge psychological victory for the British as well as a tactical one, as Trenton was where George Washington had won his first victory. The British Army took Washington in May 1816. President James Madison died in the battle of Washington. Elbridge Gerry became the fifth, and last, president of the United States after the battle. The last American ship in the Great Lakes was sunk in August of that year. The war was declared over by the British in January 1817 when the British Army met with the New Orleans occupying army, though many minor towns had not been taken and guerrila warfare continued in many parts. The British had cemented their control by September 1817.