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Bookmark or Share- Continental Congress: History, Significance, Purpose - ThoughtCoThe Continental Congress served as the governing body of the 13 American colonies and later the United States of America during the American Revolution. The First Continental Congress in 1774 coordinated the patriot colonists’ resistance to increasingly harsh and restrictive British rule.
- Continental Congress: First, Second & Definition | HISTORYThe Continental Congress was the first governing body of America. It led the Revolutionary War effort and ratified the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.
- Continental Congress | History, Members, & SignificanceContinental Congress, in the period of the American Revolution, the body of delegates who spoke and acted collectively for the people of the colony-states that later became the United States of America.
- First Continental Congress - World History EncyclopediaThe First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 American colonies in 1774, during the leadup to the American Revolutionary War. Its purpose was to react to the Intolerable Acts, which had been passed by the British Parliament earlier that year.
- What Did the Three Continental Congresses Do? | HISTORYThese different phases of the congress are often referred to as the First Continental Congress, Second Continental Congress and Confederate Congress. Here are the major achievements of...
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