EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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the President of the College of New Jersey, later known as Princeton University
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a wealthy Catholic merchant who helped to finance the Continental Army
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A a prominent educator and the “Father of American Medicine”
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A the President of the Second Continental Congress and the first to sign the Declaration of Independence
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Detailed explanation-1: -He was president of the Second Continental Congress from 1775 to 1777, when the Declaration of Independence was adopted and the United States was born. From 1780 to 1785, Hancock was the first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He was reelected in 1787 and served until his death in 1793.
Detailed explanation-2: -On May 24, 1775, Hancock was named as the presiding officer over the Second Continental Congress, which was meeting in Philadelphia to discuss the military threat posed by the British. A little more than a year later, Hancock was the first to sign the document declaring independence.
Detailed explanation-3: -On May 24, 1775, John Hancock is elected president of the Second Continental Congress. John Hancock is best known for his large signature on the Declaration of Independence, which he jested the British could read without spectacles.
Detailed explanation-4: -On August 2nd John Hancock, the President of the Congress, signed the engrossed copy with a bold signature. The other delegates, following custom, signed beginning at the right with the signatures arranged by states from northernmost New Hampshire to southernmost Georgia.
Detailed explanation-5: -He is the answer to the trick question: Who was the first president of the United States? His role as the initial president of the Continental Congress makes John Hancock, not George Washington, the correct answer.