Back to: Simple Civics

The Committees that Created a Nation | Simple Civics
October 28, 2025
Everybody knows about the Boston Tea Party and the Declaration of Independence, but long before these historic moments, anti-loyalist sentiments were growing in backrooms across the New World. Small groups of ordinary people began writing letters, sharing news, and building trust, eventually evolving into a vast information sharing network known as the Committees of Correspondence.
DONATE






















View More Programs





Support WFYI. We can't do it without you.