2007-04-19 21:46:45 · 21 answers · asked by jack 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The United States declared its independence in 1776 and defeated Great Britain with help from France in the American Revolutionary War. As Seymour Martin Lipset points out, "The United States was the first major colony successfully to revolt against colonial rule. In this sense, it was the first 'new nation.'
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress, still meeting in Philadelphia, declared the independence of a nation called "the United States of America" in the Declaration of Independence, primarily authored by Thomas Jefferson.
2007-04-19 22:51:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
While there were Native Americans (as we call them) here, the founders of the United States of America are the people that have already been listed by Purple Majesty.
2007-04-20 05:08:51 · answer #2 · answered by Lazycat 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christopher Columbus.
2007-04-21 04:10:01 · answer #3 · answered by tinu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Columbus is the founder of U.S.A. I am fully sure.
2007-04-20 05:27:09 · answer #4 · answered by Vishal 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would guess that one founder would be that guy's name who came here first
2007-04-20 04:50:16 · answer #5 · answered by Magic G 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Ben Franklin, and the rest of the brave men who signed what would have ammounted to a death warrent if the American Revolution had been a failure.
2007-04-20 04:51:10 · answer #6 · answered by shivercraft 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The Iroquois is where the quasi-heroes got the ideology. However, the Iroquois based their government on spirituality and Women held many of the highest positions
2007-04-20 04:57:11 · answer #7 · answered by nativearchdoc 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
try google.com
way before this dude named Christopher Columbus "discovered" america, it was actually the portugese explorer "Amerigo Vespuci" who landed in america and thought he was in india (thus the reference to american indians).
2007-04-20 07:05:35 · answer #8 · answered by j_timberLate 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'll take a guess and say:
between 20-50,000 years ago the nomadic tribes that followed the woolly mammoth across the stretch between alaska and siberia. (bering strait)
2007-04-20 04:52:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who ever it was - it wasn't the Native Americans - that just had their lands stolen to make it
2007-04-20 05:29:27 · answer #10 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋