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	Continental Congress - MSN Encarta
		The First Continental Congress convened in Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia, on September 5, 1774, to consider and act on the situation arising from the so-called Intolerable Acts, passed by the British Parliament in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party.
		The First Continental Congress issued a petition to George III, king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, called the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, and invited the people of Canada to join in an appeal to the king to help restore harmony between Britain and the colonies.
		When the Second Continental Congress convened on the appointed date, the battles of Lexington and Concord had recently taken place in Massachusetts, and militiamen were besieging the British occupying force within Boston.
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	Continental Congress - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Twelve colonies were represented in the First Continental Congress by about 50 delegates designated principally by the colonial assemblies; Canada and Georgia were not represented.
		The radicals in Congress remained unable to convince a majority of their colleagues that independence was their only alternative until the spring of 1776, when Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense created such massive support for the break with Britain that conservative delegates could no longer resist.
		The principal business of the Continental Congress was to direct the Revolutionary War and to preserve the union formed by the 13 colonies.
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	Continental Congress - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		CONTINENTAL CONGRESS [Continental Congress] 1774-89, federal legislature of the Thirteen Colonies and later of the United States in the American Revolution and under the Articles of Confederation (see Confederation, Articles of).
		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.
		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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	First Continental Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The First Continental Congress was a body of representatives appointed by the legislatures of twelve North American colonies of Great Britain in 1774.
		The Congress was planned through the permanent committees of correspondence, which kept the local colonial governments in communication with one another as their common opposition to Britain grew.
		First, the Congress drafted the Articles of Association on October 20, 1774.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Continental_Congress (360 words)

	First Continental Congress
		The First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia's Carpenters Hall on September 5, 1774.
		That meeting, the Second Continental Congress, was indeed called in May 1775 in the wake of the battles of Lexington and Concord.
		The First Continental Congress was regarded as a success by both the general public and the delegates.
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	Continental Congress Appointed
		Congress was to have exclusive authority over foreign relations, war and peace, weights and measures, admiralty cases, Indian relations outside the boundaries of individual states, and postal services.
		Congress was crippled in crucial ways, however, especially in obtaining revenues; for it could not tax or levy duties on external commerce, nor did it have legal ways to enforce its legitimate authority if the states chose to disregard its laws.
		First, the question was between Parliament and the colonial assemblies; later, between Congress under the Articles of Confederation and the state legislatures.
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	Continental Congress
		The purpose of the Continental Congress was to direct the Revolutionary War and preserve the union formed by the 13 American colonies.
		The first Continental Congress summoned a second congress to meet in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775 if the king didn't approve of their petition.
		The Continental Congress was the government for the United States during the American Revolution (1775-1783).
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	The First Continental Congress: A Dangerous Journey Begins
		First steps toward the eventual break with Great Britain took place in Boston shortly before Christmas, 1773, when 150 men, thinly disguised as Mohawk Indians, dumped chests of East India Company tea into the harbor.
		The first closed the port of Boston until the ruined tea was paid for.
		Congress adopted the Resolves by a unanimous vote, at least according to the record.
	www.ushistory.org /carpentershall/history/congress.htm (2248 words)

	Continental Congress — Infoplease.com
		The Early Congresses - At the urging of Massachusetts and Virginia, the First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia on...
		Continental Congress: The Second Continental Congress - The Second Continental Congress Smoke from the battles of Lexington and Concord (Apr. 19, 1775) had...
		Continental Congress: The Postwar Continental Congress - The Postwar Continental Congress After the war ended and the Articles of Confederation took force,...
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	Congress
		The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774.
		It was agreeable to all that the King and Parliament must be made to understand the grievances of the colonies and that the body must do everything possible to communicate the same to the population of America, and to the rest of the world.
		On October 14, the Declaration and Resolves established the course of the congress, as a statement of principles common to all of the colonies.
	www.ushistory.org /declaration/related/congress.htm (623 words)

	Second Continental Congress
		The Second Continental Congress was presided over by John Hancock, who replaced the ailing Peyton Randolph, and included some of the same delegates as the first, but with such notable additions as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.
		In late May, the Congress addressed the residents of Canada, hoping to ignite the passions of the French and have the province join America as the 14th state.
		Further confusion was added to the deliberations of Congress by recurring military threats; the approach of British armies forced several changes of meeting location during the course of the war.
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	Account of a Declaration: Gloss
		The first matter to be considered by all was A Plan of Union of Great Britain and the Colonies, offered by Joseph Galloway of Pennsylvania.
		Declaration and Resolves established the course of the congress, as a statement of principles common to all of the colonies.
		The first widely known acts of the Sons took place on August 14, 1765, when an effigy of Andrew Oliver (who was to be commissioned Distributor of Stamps for Massachusetts) was found hanging in a tree on Newbury street, along with a large boot with a devil climbing out of it.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Continental Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Continental Congress CONTINENTAL CONGRESS [Continental Congress] 1774-89, federal legislature of the Thirteen Colonies and later of the United States in the American Revolution and under the Articles of Confederation (see Confederation, Articles of).
		The Continental Congress decided to send an expedition to Canada to protect the northern frontier from British attack and to persuade Canada to join the revolt against England.
		Turning from business to public affairs, he was a member of the Pennsylvania provincial assembly and of the First Continental Congress.
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	The Avalon Project : Journals of the Coninental Congress - The Articles of Association; October 20, 1774
		We will neither import nor purchase, any slave imported after the first day of December next; after which time, we will wholly discontinue the slave trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it.
		That such as are owners of vessels will give positive orders to their captains, or masters, not to receive on board their vessels any goods prohibited by the said non-importation agreement, on pain of immediate dismission from their service.
		The foregoing association being determined upon by the Congress, was ordered to be subscribed by the several members thereof; and thereupon, we have hereunto set our respective names accordingly.
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	FREEDOM IS BORN - First and Second Continental Congresses
		The Congress established regulations for trade relations, issued their own currency, sent representative emissaries to other countries to represent the interests of the Colonies, and for all practical purposes operated as a nation free and independent of the Crown.
		Congress had authorized a new flag for the 13 Colonies and, on New Years Day of 1776 General Washington's troops raised their new flag on the liberty pole at Prospect Hill near the General's headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
		Since the delegates to the Second Continental Congress were meeting in Philadelphia, it was hard to miss the pamphlet issued on January 10th by local printer Robert Bell.
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	Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The First Continental Congress was attended by 56 delegates representing 12 colonies.
		Peyton Randolph [2] of Virginia was chosen president of the Congress, and each of the 12 colonies had equal voting power.
		Continental Association was an agreement adopted by the First Continental Congress of the American Colonies on Oct. 20, 1774.
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	The First Continental Congress
		In 1774, the colonies held the First Continental Congress.
		The purpose of the First Continental Congress was not to seek independence from Britain.
		The congress had three objectives: to compose a statement of colonial rights, to identify British parliaments violation of those rights, and to provide a plan that would convince Britain to restore those rights.
	www.kidport.com /RefLib/UsaHistory/AmericanRevolution/FirstCongress.htm (227 words)

	First Continental Congress Meets 1774
		The task of the first Continental Congress was to define the relationship between the Colonists and the British government, in light of the "Coercive Acts" passed by the British Parliament.
		The Continental Congress debated various ideas for a new union with Great Britain, but ultimately concentrated on fighting British actions.
		The Congress did not, however, agree to demands of some of the more radical members who insisted upon the immediate formation of a Continental army.
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	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents: First Continental Congress
		And whereas, in consequence of other statutes, judges who before held only estates at will in their offices, have been made dependent on the Crown alone for their salaries, and standing armies kept in times of peace.
		That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural born subjects within the realm of England.
		That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
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	Georgia joins the Continental Congress
		The First Continental Congress ended on November 9, 1774, passing articles that would strengthen the colonial impact on Mother England.
		Elected the first leader of the council was Archibald Bulloch.
		On July 4, 1775 the state of Georgia held its second provincial congress, and it was significantly different than the first.
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	On the Anniversary of the First Continental Congress
		The first important act of cooperation among the Colonies had resulted from their need for common defense in the French and Indian War two decades earlier.
		The first Continental Congress met to redress grievances which were the result of government action.
		A significant circumstance of the First Congress, one which ought never to be overlooked, lies in the fact that it resulted from the voluntary effort on the part of the people to redress their own grievances and remedy their own wrongs.
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	The Avalon Project : Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
		Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
		Resolved, N.C.D. That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural- born subjects, within the realm of England.
		Resolved, N.C.D. That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/resolves.htm (705 words)

	Wikinfo \| Continental Congress
		The Continental Congress was the federal 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 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.
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	First Continental Congress, Declaration and Resolves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Representatives of twelve of the thirteen colonies met in Philadelphia in September and October of 1774 to develop a common response to the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts.
		That there are entitled to life, liberty and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
		That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from their mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties and immunities of free and natural-born subjects, within the realm of England.
	www.pinzler.com /ushistory/firstcontsupp.html (563 words)

	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.
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