Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky
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then that needed to be planned and coordinated so that it wasn't merchants in certain places taking the hit and really acting on their own.
When the delegates arrived in Philadelphia for the first Continental Congress in 1774, more delegates had been to London than had been to Philadelphia.
And that demonstrates that there were no emotional ties really between the colonies.
There were very few economic ties between the colonies.
They didn't see themselves as a cohesive unit.
They saw themselves as attached to the homeland.
What is really important between 1774 and 1776 is they worked in coordinated action to bring the American people along with them to try and build that widespread support.
But even then, John Adams later said when he was talking about the Revolution that about one third of Americans were ardent patriots.
One third were ardent loyalists and one third were in the middle just trying to survive, just trying to get by, just trying to avoid a notice by whatever army happened to be closest to them.
And while those exact numbers might not be perfectly accurate, I think it does give a pretty good sense of where the continent was at the start of the war.
This was a very calculated strategic decision that was largely engineered by John Adams.
He understood that the military conflict had started in Massachusetts.
In a lot of ways, a lot of people blamed the rebels in Boston for instigating the conflict more broadly.
And so the commander needed to be from Virginia, which was the biggest state among the colonies at the time.
It was the wealthiest, and it needed to be a national effort.
Among the Virginians, George Washington was the obvious choice.
He looked the part.
He had a lot of military experience, and he had showed up suggestively in military uniform, just in case anyone forgot about his previous military experience.
So John Adams engineered the nomination of George Washington, who accepted the command and rode out up to Massachusetts before the end of the Congress.
He inherited a ton of land from basically the moment he was born because he was his father's oldest son.
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