emilyadavis05 emilyadavis05 03-12-2019 History contestada When did the individual states begin creating governments and writing new constitutions? in 1782, as the Treaty of Paris was being negotiated as soon as independence was won from Britain in 1781, at the surrender of Cornwallis during the Continental Congress’s movement toward independence in 1776 as soon as Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, in 1783