Answer:
This was a problem as during his years of sleep, the United States had already been formed and the King no longer has any control over it.
Step-by-step explanation:
Washington Irving's short story "Rip Van Winkle" tells the story of how Rip Van Winkle slept through the formation of the United States. The setting of the story is before and after the American Revolutionary War, during which Winkle was asleep for two decades and did not know anything.
Rip Van Winkle was a Dutch- American villager residing in Catskill Mountains in New York. One day he went up to the mountains to escape his wife's nagging, met a group of old men and hung around with them, drinking their wine. When he woke up, he found that everything's changed. On reaching his village, he was asked who he voted for which prompted him to proclaim his loyalty to King George III. The townspeople laughed at him, some even wondering if he was a spy from England. Reality was, he had been asleep for around 20 years during which the United States had been to war and got its independence and thus, the election and the different surroundings.