Hello and welcome to a history of the United States.

Episode 144. All men are created equal.

Last time, we looked at the Declaration of Independence. A massive moment in our narrative. After all,

it is the moment that can be considered the birth of the United States.

I can now stop referring to them as British colonies.

I know, when we started this series, we were all expecting it to take less than 144 episodes

for us to get to the United States.

Existing.

But I trust you enjoyed the journey anyway. Undeniably,

declaring independence from Britain was a true break. The Rubicon had been crossed. There was no

going back now. However, the war went, there could be no sweeping differences of opinion under

the rug. The resulting piece would need to be of opinion under the rug.

The resulting piece would need to be very different from the situation before Lexington and Concord.

It also had a unifying effect.

According to John Adams, Church bells rang in Philadelphia to celebrate. New spread around the colonies. George Washington

paraded his troops so they could hear the declaration read. Meanwhile, in the backwoods of

South Carolina, the declaration was read out by a then nine-year-old Andrew Jackson. Obviously,

we'll have a great deal more to say about him later.

With independence now official, formal matters needed to be tied up. Congress, now officially the

government of the American states, set about drafting articles of Confederation.

The state themselves started creating their own democratic constitutions.

The theme was powerful state legislatures,

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