THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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to serve as the first Congress under the Constitution
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to serve as a temporary wartime government
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to serve as the official mediation court for Britain and the colonies
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to serve as a shelter for revolutionaries
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Detailed explanation-1: -For the duration of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress served as a provisional, or temporary, government of the American colonies. The Congress drafted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, which went into effect in 1781.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Second Congress functioned as a de facto national government at the outset of the Revolutionary War by raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and writing petitions such as the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms and the Olive Branch Petition.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Second Continental Congress prepared for war by forming the Continental Army and naming George Washington as its commander. It also provided for the printing of money in order to pay for arms and soldiers. The Congress met in September 1775, just a month after the first battles of Lexington and Concord.