How do I put a white stroke on EVERYTHING in my design?

I am fairly new to Illustrator, although since I'm pretty good at Photoshop (I have used it exclusively for graphic design for 10 years) I have been picking up Illustrator fairly quickly. I created a design but would like to put a white stroke on everything so that it will look good on both dark and light colored shirts, but I can't figure out how to do this. It's SO simple in Photoshop, but I need the vector capabilities of Illustrator more and more these days so I really need to learn how in Illustrator.
All of my objects are in separate layers so I have tried to combine them and merge them to create a new stroke around them but all this does is group them and still create new strokes on each individual object. How do I literally MERGE them as they are (front object stays in front, back object stays in back, and they retain their coloring) so that I can put a white stroke around them?
Thank you! I apologize if this is something simple. I wasn't able to find a solution in earlier posts.

Create a new layer and drag all the current layers into it.
Click the circle to the right of the layer to "target" it.
In the Appearance panel create a new Stroke by using the flyout menu.
Assign "white" to the stroke.
This will add a white stroke to any object within the targeted layer. If you want the stroke to be seen only on the outside of the objectes drag the "Stroke" attribute below the "Content" in the Appearance panel.
By adding an "appearance" instead of actually "merging" your artwork, you can freely edit your artwork and the white stroke will be assigned to any changes. Read more about the "Appearance Panel". It will be WELL worth your while.

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