How did the united states become an independent nation

The United States became a country on July 4, 1776, when the Continental Congress formally endorsed the Declaration of Independence. However, the first time a foreign country officially recognized the United States as independent was in 1777, when Morocco recognized the independence of the United States.

in griswold v. connecticut (1965), the supreme court ruled that a state's ban on the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy.

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