Lastly the Continental Congress issued a petition, the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, to King George, a portion of which was written by John Adams. Something of a precursor to the ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

While John Adams called for a declaration of independence in the Continental Congress, a down-on-his-luck Englishman named Thomas Paine sounded the clarion call for revolution in January 1776 ...

The creation of the United States Constitution—John Adams described the Constitutional ... introduced a resolution in the Second Continental Congress for the colonies to collectively dissolve ...

That same month, the Continental Congress approved the preliminary ... as well as the desk it was signed on, inside the John Quincy Adams State Drawing Room at the State Department in Washington ...

Founding Father John Adams saw it coming ... It was on July 2, 1776, that the Continental Congress voted in favor of the resolution for independence, though the Declaration of Independence ...