How old will America be tomorrow?

Answer 1

What do you mean, exactly? America has had several "birthdays" that might count.

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain; that was 235 years ago. This is the one we celebrate tomorrow. Was that the founding of America?

On November 15, 1777 the Second Continental Congress approved the draft of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, the first government of the united colonies.

The Articles of Confederation were finally ratified by all of the colonies on March 1, 1781.

On September 17, 1787, the Constitution of the United States of America was signed. Was that the founding of America?

The Constitution was finally ratified by the required 9 states on June 21,1788. THIS is, arguably, the beginning of what we think of as the "United States of America".

After all, we think of George Washington as being the "first President", right? No, there were several "Presidents of the Continental Congress" during the revolutionary war, and the first elected President of the United States was John Hanson, in 1781. (There were 14 men who served as President under the Articles of Confederation. Nobody took the Articles of Confederation seriously, not even the people elected to run it.) George Washington was the first President elected to run the nation under the Constitution.