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	Continental Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Continental Congress was the legislature of the Thirteen Colonies and later of the United States from 1774 to 1789, a period that included the American Revolutionary War and the Articles of Confederation.
		The Continental Congress was forced to flee Philadelphia at the end of September 1777 as British troops occupied the erstwhile capital of the United States.
		On September 12, 1788, the Congress set the date for choosing the electors for President as January 7, 1789, the date for the electors to vote for President as February 4, 1789, and the date for the Constitution to become operative as March 4, 1789.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Continental_Congress (967 words)

	Continental
		Continental climate A continental climate is the climate typical of the interiors of the large continents of the North A...
		Continental crust The Continental Crust is the layer of granitic and sedimentary rock which forms the continents and the...
		Continental lithosphere The continental lithosphere is the part of the lithosphere which is on the continents.
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	Continental Congress -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The First Continental Congress was planned through the permanent (Click link for more info and facts about committees of correspondence) committees of correspondence, which kept the local colonial governments in communication with one another as their common opposition to Britain grew.
		The primary accomplishment of the First Continental Congress was the drafting of the (Click link for more info and facts about Articles of Association) Articles of Association on October 20.
		The (The American army during the American Revolution) Continental Army was created on June 15 to oppose the British, and General (1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)) George Washington was appointed (The officer who holds the supreme command) commander in chief.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Co/Continental_Congress.htm (719 words)

	Continental Congress - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Congress resolved that Britain had declared war against them on March 26 of that year.
		The Continental Army was created on June 15 to oppose the British, and General George Washington was appointed commander in chief.
		Continental Congress, The Continental Congress, Dates and places of sessions, See also, External links and Further reading.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Continental_Congress (512 words)

	The Articles of Confederation - 1777
		Congress had the power to set up a postal department, to estimate the costs of the government and request donations from the states, to raise armed forces, and to control the development of the western territories.
		Congress was denied the power to levy taxes; the new federal government was financed by donations from the states based on the value of each state's lands.
		Congress could not force the states to adhere to the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1783 ending the American Revolution, which was humiliating to the new government, especially when some states started their own negotiations with foreign countries.
	www.barefootsworld.net /aoc1777.html (8022 words)

	Continental Congress: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Continental Congress
		The First Continental Congress lasted only from September 5, 1774, to October 26, 1774, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		The Second Continental Congress ran from May 10, 1775, to March 2, 1789, but met in different places at different times.
		In 1775 the Congress began to support actual rebellion.
	www.encyclopedian.com /co/Continental-Congress.html (170 words)

	Encyclopedia: Continental Congress
		The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting in October of 1765 of delegates from the American Colonies that discussed and acted upon the recently passed Stamp Act.
		The President of the Continental Congress was the presiding officer of the Continental Congress elected by the delegates to the congress.
		The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also known as the Freedom Ordinance) was an act of the Continental Congress of the United States passed on July 13, 1787 under the Articles of Confederation.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Continental-Congress (4130 words)

	Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 : a machine readable transcription.
		Congress resumed the consideration of the ∥second∥ resolutions agreed to in a committee of the whole, on the report of the committee to whom were referred the letters that passed between General Heath and General Burgoyne, and the letter from General Burgoyne to General Gates.
		Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the report of the committee to whom were referred the propositions from the committee sent to the camp, and, after some time spent thereon, the president resumed the chair, and Mr.
		Congress proceeded to the election of three members of the Board of War, to join the three members of Congress, and proceed to the camp for the purposes mentioned in the resolution passed on Saturday, and, the ballots being taken, Major General Gates, Major General Mifflin, and Colonel Pickering, were elected.
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	Continental Congress, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Continental Congress, The (1774-1789) numbered among its members Princeton alumni representing all of the colony-states except Massachusetts.
		The Congress also benefited from the services of two officers of the College: President John Witherspoon, a member for six years, and Trustee Elias Boudinot, president of the Congress in 1782-1783.
		Following is a list of delegates who attended Princeton, compiled from biographical sketches of members of the Continental Congress in the 1972 edition of the Biographical Directory of the American Congress, and further supplemented by material in Princetonians 1748-1768: A Biographical Dictionary.
	mondrian.princeton.edu /CampusWWW/Companion/continental_congress.html (143 words)

	Continental Congress -> The Second Continental Congress on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A Continental army was created to oppose the British and, through the agency of John Adams, George Washington was appointed (June 15, 1775) commander in chief.
		Finally, the momentous step was taken: Congress on July 4, 1776, adopted the Declaration of Independence.
		There was friction between Congress and the military leaders, and the soldiers, contemptuous (sometimes justly) of the politicians, constantly agitated for their pay and their rights.
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	Abraham Baldwin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1785 he sat in the assembly and the (The legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution; they issued the Declaration of Independence and framed Articles of Confederation) Continental Congress.
		At first, he favored representation in the Senate based upon property holdings, but possibly because of his close relationship with the Connecticut delegation he later came to fear alienation of the small states and changed his mind to representation by state.
		He was then elected to the (The legislature of the United States government) U.S. Congress, where he served for 18 years (House of Representatives, 1789-1799; Senate, 1799-1807).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Ab/Abraham_Baldwin.htm (715 words)

	Continental Congress -> First Continental Congress on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Indignation against England's colonial policy reached fever pitch in the colonies after the passage (1774) of the Intolerable Acts, and the Sons of Liberty and the committees of correspondence promoted the idea of an intercolonial assembly similar to the one held (1765) at the time of the Stamp Act.
		The First Continental Congress (Sept. 5-Oct. 26, 1774) was made up of delegates from all the colonies except Georgia.
		The session's most important act was the creation of the Continental Association, which forbade importation and use of British goods and proposed prohibition of colonial exports.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/ContinenC_FirstContinentalCongress.asp (361 words)

	Continental Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One of the major accomplishments of the First Continental Congress was the drafting of the Articles of Association on October 20.
		They created the Continental Army and issued currency, in the form of the Continental Dollar).
		James Henderson; "Party Politics in the Continental Congress"; 1974, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0070281432; 2002 (paperback) reprint, Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 0819165255.
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	The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut - 1774 First Continental Congress
		This showed the men at the Congress that the people were ready to stand behind their decisions, stop all trade with British companies, and to fight England.
		A Connecticut delegate to the Stamp Act Congress (1765), he was later a member (1774-79; 1780-83) of the Continental Congress.
		He was long a member (1774-81, 1783-84) of the Continental Congress, helped to draw up the Articles of Confederation, and after serving as a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 where he introduced the Connecticut Compromise' providing for a bicameral federal legislature, he was one of the strongest proponents of the new Constitution.
	www.colonialwarsct.org /1774.htm (1384 words)

	An Alarm from Lexington
		A new list of patriotic post offices was published in May showing one in every large town from Portsmouth, N.H. to Williamsburg, Va. So quickly and completely was the conversion that on May 4th the last of the parliamentary post riders were discharged for lack of funds.
		Philadelphia was preparing for the arrival of the delegates to the second Continental Congress.
		Recognizing that a more official bond was needed, the Continental Congress soon adopted the army surrounding Boston and appointed George Washington from Virginia to lead them, thus converting it into a national force with the backing of the Continental Congress.
	www.ctssar.org /articles/lexington_alarm.htm (5186 words)

	Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 : a machine readable transcription.
		The credentials of the Delegates, who attended for the Congress for the federal year 1788–89, though never read in a session of the Congress, are nevertheless printed in an appendix in order to conclude the stow of the Continental Congress, which actually finished its labors on October 13, 1788.
		That, it is therefore to be presumed, that Congress have, on a consideration of this subject, judged it impracticable to extend general relief, to the numerous characters engaged in their service during the War, who have been sufferers, from the depretiation of the Paper, which they received in payment.
		Congress as to obtain what has been requested I beg leave to desire that whatever lands may be granted as a military right may be included in my shares of the land granted to the Ohio Company.
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	Second Continental Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The delegates, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams, were elected in part by colonial assemblies and in part by the provincial congresses that had sprung up to replace those rebellious legislatures dissolved by royal governors.
		The Congress commissioned Washington to organize a continental army and assume responsibility for the siege of Boston.
		Most of the delegates, including Washington, still hoped for reconciliation with Britain, but by the end of 1775 this possibility had faded.
	www.alexandriacentral.org /cove/2ndcontcongress.html (173 words)

	Account of a Declaration 1
		This was in May. We further recommended to the several counties to elect deputies to meet at Williamsburg the 1st of August ensuing, to consider the state of the colony, and particularly to appoint delegates to a general Congress, should that measure be acceded to by the committees of correspondence generally.
		The convention met on the 1st of August, renewed their association, appointed delegates to the Congress, gave them instructions very temperately and properly expressed, both as to style and matter; and they repaired to Philadelphia at the time appointed.
		The splendid proceedings of that Congress at their 1st session belong to general history, are known to every one, and need not therefore be noted here.
	www.ushistory.org /declaration/account/index.htm (1851 words)

	Continental Congress
		The legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution; they issued the Declaration of Independence and framed Articles of Confederation.
		English words defined with "Continental Congress": Declaration of Independence ♦ Hancock, Henry Laurens, Huntington &diams; John Hancock &diams; Laurens, Livingston ♦ Robert R. Livingston &diams; Samuel Huntington &diams; The Liberty Bell.
		Proceedings Of The Continental Congress Of The National Society Of The Daughters Of The American Revolution (reference)
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /Co/Continental+Congress.html (556 words)

	Mr. Jefferson Goes to Congress
		Jefferson was sent to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, arriving June 20, 1775.
		Congress did not immediately adopt any official seal, and as time went by other committees were appointed.
		At the bottom of the pyramid were enscribed the Roman numerals for 1776, and the popular all-seeing eye of the Creator was implanted over the pyramid, symbolizing the providential power which the Founders felt had continually interceded in behalf of the cause of freedom during the War for Independence.
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	Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 : a machine readable transcription.
		Congress then resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the several reports to them referred; and, after some time spent thereon, the president resumed the chair, and Mr.
		Congress would not strictly comply with the request we were ordered to make on this subject, lest they should establish a precedent which might be injurious to the general interest of America.
		The Congress took into consideration the report of the committee on the cartel made between Brigadier General Arnold and Captain Foster, ∥for exchange of prisoners;∥ and, after some debate, the farther consideration thereof was postponed till to Morrow.
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	The Continental Congress
		The First Continental Congress was a group of 56 delegates from 12 colonies (all except Georgia) who met in Philadelphia in September of 1774.
		The Second Continental Congress met in 1775, when the Revolutionary war had started.
		The Continental Congress created the Continental Army and named George Washington as commander-in-chief.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /wwww/us/continentalcongressdef.htm (149 words)

	American Timeline: The Colonies Unite; Continental Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One of the most important accomplishments of this Congress was the Continental Association.
		This incident was caused by the British government denying the Congress.
		The new delegates of the Continental Congress included Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Hancock.
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	CD-ROM review of Letters of Delegates to Congress
		Less well-known delegates such as Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Thomas McKean of Delaware, Abraham Clark of New Jersey, James Duane of New York, John Penn of North Carolina, and James Wilson of Pennsylvania contributed in their own ways to the work of Congress and the founding of the new nation.
		At the end of the 25 volumes there are a chronology of the Continental Congress, a list of the delegates by state with their respective dates of service, and lists of repository symbols and the short titles of sources cited in the work.
		Using a mouse to click the "contents" button on the "toolbelt," which is located on the left side of the screen, enables one to jump instantly to the beginning of any one of the 25 volumes, the chronology, delegates list, or sources.
	www.albany.edu /jmmh/vol2no1/delegates.html (2029 words)

	List of members at the First Continental Congress
		List of members at the First Continental Congress
		That crisis was the planting of the seed of an independent nation in America.
		On Monday, the 5th of September, there were present in the Carpenter's Hall (yet standing) forty-four delegates.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/Our_Country_vol_2/listmembe_ea.html (237 words)

	Continental Congress Sampler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The purpose of this Web page is to give you a sampling of some of the aspects of Continental Congress.
		List at least 3 goals of the Congress.
		While exploring this sampler on 1st Continental Congress, we hope you've had fun, learned, and most importantly connected with some part of this topic.
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