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Well, for one thing it was not the United States, it was a group of colonies ruled by a British King.
Here are the facts...
There were approximately 2.5 million people living here. Less than 1% our current population and smaller than many cities.
Women were not allowed to vote except in New Jersey. There were slaves both Black and White. Approximately 500,000 of them.
Average life expectancy of a White male was 38 years. It is currently 78.
It was mostly an agrarian economy. Almost everyone ran their own business, particularly raising and selling crops and livestock. Currently, only about 9% of Americans own their own businesses.
Families averaged about 6 members, compared to 4 currently.
Taxes were between 1 to 1.5%. Government was small, very small compared to today's. There was no welfare state, no public education sponsored by government, no FBI, CIA, NSA, Secret Service, etc. We had NO President, NO Congress, NO House of Representatives, NO Supreme Court. Of course, these would all come later.
Approximately 50,000 people were killed in the Revolutionary War. Many died from wounds that didn't initially kill them OR from disease because of unsanitary conditions in battle.
The penalty for signing the Declaration of Independence was severe. The men who signed it would be killed if the U.S. didn't win the Revolutionary War. It was likely their families would also be killed, or at the very lease stripped of all their property, their homes, etc.
Here is a list of the Signers: Signers of the Declaration of Independence | National Archives
The oldest was 70. The youngest were 26.
These men and their families took amazing, awesome, incredible risks to sign. They had no idea how this would turn out.
I found this poem on TRUTH Social:
“If the Founders Could See Us Now”
by R.D. Halden
They stood in fields of fire and frost,
with calloused hands and hearts forged in revolution.
Not for conquest—
but for liberty.
Not for comfort—
but for principle.
They inked their names beneath sacred words,
pledging lives, fortunes, and sacred honor
to a dream they could barely hold
but refused to surrender.
If the Founders could see us now…
they’d marvel at the towers we built,
the steel veins stitching our coasts,
the voices rising in one breath
across a thousand miles of freedom.
But then—
they’d weep.
At the grip of greed cloaked in law,
at taxation without comprehension,
at justice sold in back rooms,
and truth—
mocked on glowing screens.
They’d ask when we traded valor for vanity,
conviction for convenience,
sovereignty for systems
that forgot the people
were always the point.
They’d wonder if their sacrifice
was now just a footnote,
if liberty was a relic,
if the spark they lit
still burns beneath the surface.
And yet…
they’d still believe in us.
Because the soil they bled for is not lost—
not while we remember.
Not while we raise our voices,
not in hatred, but in hope.
Not in violence, but in vigilance.
Not to tear down—
but to rebuild what they began.
Because freedom is not inherited.
It’s renewed.
Every generation.
By those brave enough to care.
Some of the information in this article came from: 10 Surprising Things About 1776 That Put the Fourth of July in Perspective
