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U.S. Continental Congress

 

Biography

The Continental Congress was initially a convention of delegates from a number of British American colonies at the height of the American Revolution, who acted collectively for the people of the Thirteen Colonies that ultimately became the United States of America. After declaring the colonies independent from the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1776, it acted as the provisional governing structure for the collective United States, while most government functions remained in the individual states. The term most specifically refers to the First Continental Congress of 1774 and the Second Continental Congress of 1775–1781. More broadly, it also refers to the Congress of the Confederation of 1781–1789, thus covering the three congressional bodies of the Thirteen Colonies and the United States that met between 1774 and the inauguration of a new government in 1789 under the United States Constitution.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Petition to Congress

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 786900
Mss 786900
Date(s): 1786
Abstract

In English.

Rufus King letter

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 786169
Mss 786169
Date(s): 1786-02-19
Abstract

In English.

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