Talk:History of the United States (1776–1789)

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I notcied that there was nothing about the Treaty of Paris

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I've found that the first country to recognize the United States is sometimes reported as Statia, Dubrovnik, or Morocco depending on semantics. No matter which is correct, this seems to be such a minor detail in US history that I don't think it belongs in a summary of the entire period Flying Jazz 23:48, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

re: "The war was not a wonderful success" -- for the U.S. ? for the British ? for both ? Kyk 11:51, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

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I saw a mention of trading with Indians, but I missed anything else; had the U.S. started the banishments and perhaps genocidal operations against the Indians yet in this early time period? Kyk 11:53, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] USNA

Most of the original documents dating from this time, to include the important Franco-American Treaty of Alliance of 1778--making the U.S. an acknowledged nation among nations--and the British-American Treaty of Paris--that which ended the warfare of the American Revolution state that the United States was not simply called the United States of America but instead the United States of North America. A theory has been tossed around recently that says the USA's official (if original means official, since a declared change from USNA to USA was never made) name should in fact be that of North American. Some have even proposed that the name changed only after the War of 1812 after the British burned the District of Columbia due to the fact that the original Constitution and Declaration of Independence were burned with the Capitol, and that "short-hand" copies from Philadelphia replaced the originals. This would explain the name change since the "short-hand" copies exclude North from America. This is a theory some historians have been tossing around for a while now without any intention, as of yet, to officialize it (due to a lack of records, most lost during the same burning of 1814 when both the Capitol and the Library of Congress were put to flame).--SOCL 15:32, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Historians have been tossing around this theory? I challenge that. Reference please.Rjensen 18:13, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

I should probably not have said historians have been tossing this around; further, I said some historians, not the historian community. Most of what I have heard have been discussions between professors who say they've read articles on the matter, though I can't say I've ever read anything. In the end, I was simply wondering whether anyone else had heard about this.--SOCL 03:16, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] In the year AD 1776, war was beginning

First sentence of article: this phrase seems out of place with the rest of sentence starting the article. Thanks Hmains 03:23, 6 January 2006 (UTC)