[eyeamok]

I knew I screwed up the 1861, should have been 1865. but I couldn’t fix it. But the 1789 is Correct. that is the Day the United States became Officially it’s own Country. From 1776 to 1789 it was just a bunch of treasonous subjects challenging the Authority of King George.

[DiogenesLamp]

I knew I screwed up the 1861, should have been 1865. but I couldn’t fix it. But the 1789 is Correct. that is the Day the United States became Officially it’s own Country. From 1776 to 1789 it was just a bunch of treasonous subjects challenging the Authority of King George.

Various Supreme Court decisions I have read place US citizenship as having began July 4, 1776. Even if you ignore that, we had a national charter in the Articles of Confederation March 1, 1781.

[Verginius Rufus]

By the Treaty of Paris in 1783 King George III recognized the independence of the United States.

The treaty named the 13 states one by one. The Brits had their doubts whether the country would remain united.