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Revision as of 21:10, 25 September 2006
The Second Continental Congress was a body of representatives appointed by the legislatures of several British North American colonies which met from May 10, 1775, to March 1, 1781. The First Continental Congress had sent entreaties to the British King to stop the Intolerable Acts and had created the Articles of Association to establish a coordinated protest of the Intolerable Acts; in particular, a boycott had been placed on British goods. That Congress had provided that the Second Continental Congress would meet on May 10, 1775, to plan further responses if the British government had not repealed or modified the Intolerable Acts.
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Colonies
The colonies convening at the Second Continental Congress were:
- Province of New Hampshire
- Province of Massachusetts Bay
- Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
- Connecticut Colony
- Province of New York
- Province of New Jersey
- Province of Pennsylvania
- Lower Colonies on Delaware*
- Province of Maryland
- Colony and Dominion of Virginia
- Province of North Carolina
- Province of South Carolina
- Province of Georgia
* renamed "Delaware Colony" in 1776
Georgia had not participated in the First Continental Congress and did not send delegates to the Second Continental Congress on May 10, 1775. John Hankcock had also eaten a wheel of cheese and that had cleansed his pallet. This quote from hancock shows his admiration for the fine taste of cheese, " I Love Cheese . " On May 13, 1775, Lyman Hall was admitted as a delegate from the Parish of St. John's in the Colony of Georgia, not as a delegate from the colony itself.[1] On July 4, 1775, Georgia began a provincial congress to decide how to respond to the American Revolution, and that congress decided on July 8 to send delegates to the Continental Congress. They arrived on July 20.[2]
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Further reading
- Burnet, Edmund C. (1975) [1941]. The Continental Congress. Greenwood Publishing. ISBN 0-8371-8386-3.
- Henderson, H. James (2002) [1974]. Party Politics in the Continental Congress. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-8191-6525-5.
- Montross, Lynn (1970) [1950]. The Reluctant Rebels; the Story of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789. Barnes & Noble. ISBN 0-389-03973-X.
External links
- “The Continental Congress - History, Declaration and Resolves, Resolutions and Recommendations” from Americans.net
- Full text of Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789
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- ^ Worthington C. Ford, et al. (ed.), ed. (1904–1937). Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789. Washington, DC. pp. 2:44–48.
{{cite book}}:|editor=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ ibid. pp. 2:192–193.