History of the United States I / Unit 5 USH1 0626 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Gaspée and the Committees
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The idea
Rhode Island colonists burned the British revenue ship Gaspée in seventeen seventy-two, and Britain convened a commission able to remove accused colonists to Britain for trial.
In practice
Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren and James Otis re-establishing the Boston Committee of Correspondence as a shadow government.
Where people slip
Membership across the colonies reached roughly seven to eight thousand, distributing news that sometimes differed from royal accounts.
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