The committees of correspondence were a collection of American political organizations that sought to coordinate opposition to the British Parliament and, later, support for American independence duri
The Boston Committee of Correspondence, which usually gathered at the Liberty Tree in Boston Common
Fraunces Tavern in Lower Manhattan, the meeting place of the Committee of Fifty on May 16, 1774
Where we met for consignment of tea
The American Revolution was a political movement in the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain. It began as a rebellion and turned into a revolution eventually creating the sovereign United States, which
Committees of correspondence
…American political organizations that sought to coordinate opposition to the British Parliament and, later, support for American independence during the American Revolution. The brainchild of Samuel Adams, a Patriot from Boston, the committees sought to establish, through the writing of letters, an underground network of…
The Committee of Five presenting its draft of the Declaration of Independence to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia on June 28, 1776, depicted in John Trumbull's 1818 portrait, Declaration of Independence
Notice of the Stamp Act 1765 in a colonial newspaper
Letter III of John Dickinson's Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, published in the Pennsylvania Chronicle, December 1767
On June 9, 1772, the Sons of Liberty burned HMS Gaspee, a British customs schooner in Narragansett Bay.