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First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Olive Branch Petition
A letter to King George III, from members of the Second Continental Congress, which represents the last attempt by the moderate party in North America to avoid a war of independence against Britain. -
Second Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that, soon after warfare, declared the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Prohibitory Act
A measure of retaliation by Great Britain against the general rebellion then going on in the American colonies, which became known as the American Revolutionary War -
Declaration of Independance
The formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain.