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Jefferson largely wrote the Declaration in isolation between June 11 and June 28, 1776, from the home he was renting at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia. The Declaration was a formal explanation of why the Continental Congress voted to declare American independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain , over a year after the American ...
Organizing elections to select delegates to a constitutional convention – which framed the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776. [ 1 ] As the last holdout among the Thirteen Colonies to declare independence, the conference's actions had a profound impact on American public opinion and facilitated the issuing of the Declaration of Independence ...
Benjamin Towne published the first issue of the Post on January 24, 1775, [6] using paper borrowed from James Humphreys without expectation of payment. [7] The paper was supportive of the cause of the American Revolution, [6] and was the first to publish the United States Declaration of Independence, with it taking up the front page of the July 6, 1776 issue.
January 2 – The Tory Act of 1776 is signed by Peyton Randolph. [1] June 18–25 – The Pennsylvania Provincial Conference takes place at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia declaring Pennsylvania independent from Great Britain. July 4 – Henry Beeson published a plat of quarter-acre plots near his mill in Union now Uniontown. [2]
The Congress constituted a new federation that it first named the United Colonies of North America, and in 1776, renamed the United States of America. The Congress began convening in Philadelphia , on May 10, 1775, with representatives from 12 of the 13 colonies, after the Battles of Lexington and Concord .
The Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778) was a British military campaign during the American Revolutionary War designed to gain control of Philadelphia, the Revolutionary-era capital where the Second Continental Congress convened, formed the Continental Army, and appointed George Washington as its commander in 1775, and later authored and unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence the ...
The Congress continued to meet there until December 12, 1776, [19] when Congress evacuated Philadelphia. During the British occupation of Philadelphia, the Continental Congress met in Baltimore, Maryland (December 20, 1776 to February 27, 1777). The Congress returned to Philadelphia from March 4, 1777, to September 18, 1777. [19]
Shortly afterwards, in June 1776, these committees called a state convention, which met on July 15, 1776. The decisions made at that convention would, when ratified, cause the previous government to be completely superseded; [ 8 ] it established a Council of Safety to rule in the interim, and it drew up the commonwealth (state) constitution ...