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Meeting of First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia; all thirteen colonies except Georgia were represented.
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Suffolk Resolves
The First Continental Congress approved the Suffolk Resolves. The Resolves implemented organized opposition to the Intolerable Acts.
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Slave trade halted as anti-British protest
Congress halted the slave trade as part of anti-British protests.
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Declaration of Rights and Grievances
The First Continental Congress sent King George III their “Declaration of Rights and Grievances,” which detalied “grievous acts and measures” imposed by the crown to which “Americans cannot submit.”
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Continental Association
Congress established the Continental Association to end commerce with Britain.
Glossary Term – Organization
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was the body of colonial delegates that first met in May 1775, by arrangement of the First Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, who had not taken part in the First Continental Congress, were among its members. During the American Revolution, the Second Continental Congress served as the provisional government of the colonies, issued the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and adopted the Articles of Confederation in 1777.
Glossary Term – Organization
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was the unified body of colonial delegates that met in September 1774 to determine the colonial response to Parliament’s passage of the Intolerable Acts (or Coercive Acts). All the colonies except Georgia were represented in the First Continental Congress. Fifty-six delegates met in Philadelphia. The meeting adopted the Suffolk Resolves, sent its “Declaration of Rights and Grievances” to King George III, and agreed to meet again in a Second Continental Congress in May 1775.
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John Dickinson
John Dickinson (1732–1808) was the “penman of the revolution” who in 1768 published Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies, a pamphlet that opposed the Townshend Duties of 1767. Dickinson served as a member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. While he opposed oppressive acts of the British government, for a time he also advocated peaceful reconciliation with the Crown. He later served as president of the Annapolis Convention and as a delegate to to the Constitutional Convention...
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Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry (1736–1799) was a major figure in the American Revolution and the first governor of the state of Virginia. Henry was not highly educated, but his skills as an orator propelled him to leadership in the Revolutionary era. As a member of the House of Burgesses, Henry vehemently opposed the 1765 Stamp Act. He helped organize Virginia’s first Committee of Correspondence and served as a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses. At a meeting of the Virginia Convention in 1775, he stated his commitment to independence...
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Christopher Gadsden
Christopher Gadsden (1723–1805) was a wealthy merchant and one of the most prominent leaders of the Revolution in the southern colonies. Gadsden was among the founders of the Sons of Liberty in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1765 he served as a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress. Gadsden was later a member of the First and Second Continental Congresses and served as an officer in the Continental Army from 1776 to 1783. In August 1780 Gadsden was captured by the British and held as a prisoner for forty-two weeks before being released in 1781...