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Despite the thrashing he gave Horatio Gates at the Battle of Camden, Lord Cornwallis found the Carolinas slipping out of his grasp.
Lord Cornwallis was trapped in Yorktown in October 1781. His surrender ended the American War of Independence.
As the newly independent United States trasitioned from war to peace, it was tripped up by the ineffective Articles of Confederation.
Between the end of the War of Independence and the Constitutional Convention the new United States was plagued by problems. The Articles of Confederation were not up to solving them.
The ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights marks the end of the Revolutionary Era.