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Paine has a claim to the title The Father of the American Revolution, [35] [36] which rests on his pamphlets, especially Common Sense, which crystallized sentiment for independence in 1776. It was published in Philadelphia on January 10, 1776, and signed anonymously "by an Englishman". It was an immediate success, with Paine estimating it sold ...
The Founding Fathers of the United States, often simply referred to as the Founding Fathers or the Founders, were a group of late-18th-century American revolutionary leaders who united the Thirteen Colonies, oversaw the War of Independence from Great Britain, established the United States of America, and crafted a framework of government for ...
The Committee of Five of the Second Continental Congress was a group of five members who drafted and presented to the full Congress in Pennsylvania State House what would become the United States Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776. This Declaration committee operated from June 11, 1776, until July 5, 1776, the day on which the ...
Founders Online is a research website providing free access to a digitized collection representing the papers of seven of the most influential figures in the founding of the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Among the 185,000 documents available through the website's searchable database are the papers of John Adams , Benjamin Franklin , Alexander ...
William Livingston (November 30, 1723 – July 25, 1790) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the first governor of New Jersey (1776–1790) during the American Revolutionary War. As a New Jersey representative in the Continental Congress , he signed the Continental Association and the United States Constitution .
Engraving by Henry Bryan Hall. Nelson was the grandson of Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson, an immigrant from Cumberland, England, who was an early pioneer at Yorktown.Nelson Jr. was born in 1738 in Yorktown; his parents were Elizabeth Carter Burwell (daughter of Robert "King" Carter and widow of Nathaniel Burwell) and William Nelson, who was a leader of the colony and briefly served as governor.
The Age of Revolution is a period from the late-18th to the mid-19th centuries during which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred in most of Europe and the Americas. [2] The period is noted for the change from absolutist monarchies to representative governments with a written constitution, and the creation of nation states.
Richard B. Morris, The Emerging Nations and the American Revolution (1970) Richard B. Morris, Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny: The Founding Fathers as Revolutionaries (1973) Richard B. Morris, ed., John Jay: Unpublished Papers, 1743–1780 (1976) Richard B. Morris, "The American Revolution as an Anti-colonial War" in Conspectus of History (1976)