THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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First Continental Congress
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Second Continental Congress
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Articles of Confederation
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Committees of Correspondence
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Detailed explanation-1: -There were two main factions represented at the Congress: the conservatives-headed by John Jay of New York and John Dickinson of Pennsylvania-and the radicals, led by John Adams of Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.
Detailed explanation-2: -They established a Continental army and elected George Washington as Commander-in-Chief, but the delegates also drafted the Olive Branch Petition and sent it to King George III in hopes of reaching a peaceful resolution. The king refused to hear the petition and declared the American colonies in revolt.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Continental Congress was the governing body by which the American colonial governments coordinated their resistance to British rule during the first two years of the American Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -As the seasons changed and hostilities continued, cries for independence grew stronger. The men in Philadelphia were now wanted for treason. They continued to govern and hope against hope that all would end well. For them, the summer of 1776 brought the point of no return-a formal declaration of independence.