Pictographs resemble what they mean. For example, a pictograph of "Tiger" would be more or less recognizable as the image of a tiger crudely drawn. 
<span>Ideographs do not resemble what they mean. However, Ideographs can resemble one another (i.e. the ideograph of "Tiger" may resemble the ideograph of "Lion", but neither would resemble a Tiger or Lion crudely drawn). Ideographs can also steal phonetic pieces (i.e. The ideograph for "Shipping" may have the ideograph for "ping" in it since "ping" is phonetically part of "Shipping"). Finally Ideographs can be composed of multiple minor ideographs working in concert (i.e. "Archer" may be written as combination of "bow" and "man" since the Archer is man who uses a bow). None of the combination-elements are present in pictographs.</span>
        
             
        
        
        
After the colonies declared their independence from the crown they joined together to form one country, however each state was self governing. 
In order prevent infighting and animosity between them it was sought to create a single unified government.  With that in mind, every state sent a delegate to meet in a convention to plan how this was to be done, the result of this convention was the creation of the first government in the United States in 1781 under the "The Articles of the Confederation".
This new central government proved to be weak and ineffective and failed to prevent infighting between states over land boundaries and taxes.
As such it was sought to create a stronger federal government to overcome the deficiencies the first government had.  
After many meetings and discussions, on September 17th 1787, during the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention, the United States Constitution was finally signed.  
 
        
             
        
        
        
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They had a large degree of self-government because they did not want to be ruled by parliament they wanted to rule themselves and not have to do as parliament wanted.
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I think the third option would be a suitable answer.