2. (No header) • a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies • The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774 • All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. • The colonies presented there were united in a determination to show a combined authority to Great Britain. • Pennsylvania and New York sent delegates with firm instructions to seek a resolution with England.
3. (No header) • The United States Congress lists 343 men who attended the Continental Congress • including the future United States Presidents. • George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe • most involved in the continental congress were lawyers, poets, and political leaders
4. “ The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more . . . . I am not a Virginian, but an American. ’’ - patrick henry
5. (No header) • delegates were hardly united in their views they had realized they have to work together. • drafted a statement of grievances calling for the repeal of 13 acts of Parliament had passed since 1763. • declared that these laws had violated the colonists rights.
6. Credit to the american journey textbook florida edition . • rights were based on the “laws of nature” • the principles of the english constitution, and the several charters”. • voted to boycott all British goods and trade.
7. Congress's major decisions was to endorse Suffolk Resolves. These decisions been prepared by Bostonians and others that lived in Suffolk county,Massachusetts. So they had been called on the people of Suffork County to arm themselves against the British. The people responded by forming militias. Many people wondered when the war was coming and they got their answer by the following spring.
