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First Continental Congress
was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
Second Continental Congress
was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War. -
Olive Branch Petition
was a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution. -
Prohibitory Act
British legislation in late 1775 that cut off all trade between the American colonies and England, and removed the colonies from the King's protection. -
Declaration of independence
the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence.
