The correct answer is C) the United States was able to maintain its independence.
After the American Revolution, other nations looked to the United States as a model nation in that the united states was able to maintain its independence.
The Continental Army, led by General George Washington, defeated the British troops in the Revolutionary War and that is how the United States got its independence from the English crown. Both nations signed the Treaty of Paris to formally end the war. The victory of the American colonists over the English superpower represented a major influence to other independence movements such as the French Revolution and the Mexican Independence.
