USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Continental Army reflected the diversity of the colonies. Coming from all 13 colonies, soldiers were native-born and immigrants of almost every nationality as well as free and enslaved African-Americans. Several women also disguised themselves as men in order to fight. The army accepted volunteers as young as 16.

Detailed explanation-3: -June 14, 1775 June 15, Washington is appointed commander in chief of the Continental Army. The forces from several colonies gathered in Cambridge and Boston become the founding core of that army. George Washington’s Commission as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.

Detailed explanation-4: -Colonists continued to coordinate their resistance to new imperial measures, but between 1766 until 1774, they did so primarily through committees of correspondence, which exchanged ideas and information, rather than through a united political body.