153 Committees and Congress: Governments of the American Revolution (Doing History Rev)

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Liz Covart

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🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

How did the American revolutionaries organize and coordinate local, provincial, and intercolonial action?

How did the revolutionaries form governments?

In this episode of the Doing History: To the Revolution series we explore governance and governments of the American Revolution with three scholars: Mark Boonshoft, Benjamin Irvin, and Jane Calvert.

Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/153

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0:00.0	Support for Ben Franklin's world and the Doing History to the Revolution series comes from the
0:04.8	Omaha Institute of Early American History and Culture and Care.com Senior Care. I'm going to In the House of Representatives, June 17,1774. This house having duly considered and
0:38.4	being deeply affected with the unhappy differences which have long subsisted and are increasing between
0:46.2	Great Britain and the American colonies do resolve that a meeting of committees from the several colonies on this continent is highly
0:56.8	expedient and necessary to consult upon the present state of the colonies and the miseries to which they are and must be
1:06.6	reduced by the operation of certain acts of Parliament respecting America, and to deliberate and determine upon wise and proper measures
1:18.6	to be by them recommended to all the colonies for the recovery and establishment of their just rights and liberties,
1:27.6	civil and religious, and the restoration of union and harmony between Great Britain and the colonies most ardently desired by all good men.
1:40.0	Therefore resolved that the Honorable James Bowdoin Esquire, the Honorable Thomas Cushing Esquire,
1:48.8	Mr. Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Robert Treat Payne, Esquires, be and they are hereby appointed a committee
1:59.8	on the part of this province for the purposes of four said to meet such committees or
2:06.8	delegates from the other colonies in the city of Philadelphia on the first day of September next and that the
2:15.8	speaker of the house be directed in a letter to the speakers of the House of
2:21.1	Burgess' or representatives in the several colonies to inform them of the substance of these resolves.
2:29.0	Signed, Samuel Adams, Adams, clerk.
2:35.0	Welcome to Ben Franklin's World,
2:37.0	Podcasts About Early American History with Liz Covert.
2:41.0	The study of history is key to understanding who we are and how we can
2:45.2	affect the better future. Van Franklin's world will introduce you to historical people
2:50.2	and events that have impacted and shaped our present day world.
2:54.3	And now here's your host, Liz Colart.
2:57.1	On June 17, 1774, the Massachusetts General Corridor Colonial Assembly resolved that there needed to be a meeting of committees
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