THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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None of the above.
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To make a list of grievances of all of the things that they didn’t like over the past 15 years and submit it to King George.
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To declare their independence from Great Britain.
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To plan an attack on Great Britain to start the Revolutionary War.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Their grievances mainly had to do with the Coercive Acts, a series of four acts that were established to punish colonists and to restore order in Massachusetts following the Boston Tea Party.
Detailed explanation-2: -On September 5, 1774, the first Continental Congress in the United States met in Philadelphia to consider its reaction to the British government’s restraints on trade and representative government after the Boston Tea Party.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lastly the Continental Congress issued a petition, the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, to King George, a portion of which was written by John Adams. Something of a precursor to the Declaration of Independence, it called for greater American autonomy and limits on Parliament’s power over the colonies.
Detailed explanation-4: -Rather than calling for independence, the First Continental Congress passed and signed the Continental Association in its Declaration and Resolves, which called for a boycott of British goods to take effect in December 1774.
Detailed explanation-5: -Among other complaints, the Congress criticized the British Parliament’s unfair taxation, lack of representation, and the judicial abuses collectively known as the Intolerable or Coercive Acts. This series of punitive measures, prompted by the Boston Tea Party, further alienated the colonists from Great Britain.