The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after…
New Jersey’s first state constitution was adopted on July 2, 1776. The American Revolutionary War was underway and George Washington had recently been defeated in New…
The Continental Army was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America. Established by a…
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war…
After the Battles of Lexington and Concord near Boston in April 1775, the colonies went to war. Washington appeared at the Second Continental Congress in a…
After Congress approved the final wording of the Declaration on July 4, a handwritten copy was sent a few blocks away to the printing shop of…
First called the Office of Indian Affairs, the agency was created as a division in 1824 within the War Department. Similar agencies had existed in the…
The Delaware Constitution of 1776 was the first governing document for Delaware state government and was in effect from its adoption in September 1776 until replaced…
Early American currency went through several stages of development in the colonial and post-Revolutionary history of the United States. Because few coins were minted in the…