Continental Congress

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The Continental Congress was the federal legislature of the Thirteen Colonies and later of the United States from 1774 to 1789, a period that included the American Revolutionary War and the Articles of Confederation. There were two Continental Congresses.

Table of contents

1 The First Continental Congress 2 The Second Continental Congress 3 See also 4 External links 5 Further reading

The First Continental Congress

The First Continental Congress lasted only from September 5, 1774, to October 26, 1774, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Second Continental Congress

The Second Continental Congress ran from May 10, 1775, to March 2, 1789, but met in different places at different times. (See the external link below for the daily records of its proceedings.) In 1775 the Congress began to support actual rebellion. They created the Continental Army and issued currency (the Continental Dollar).

Dates and Places of Sessions

• Sept. 5, 1774- Oct. 26, 1774 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• May 10, 1775- Dec. 12, 1776
• Dec. 20, 1776- Mar. 4, 1777 Baltimore, Maryland
• Mar. 5, 1777- Sept. 18- 1777 Philadelphia
• Sept. 27, 1777 One Day Only Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• Sept. 30, 1777- June 27, 1778 York, Pennsylvania
• July 2, 1778- June 21, 1783 Philadelphia
• June 30, 1783- Nov. 4, 1783 Princeton, New Jersey
• Nov. 26, 1783- June 3, 1784 Annapolis, Maryland
• Nov. 1, 1784- Dec. 24, 1784 Trenton, New Jersey
• Jan 11, 1785- Nov. 4, 1785 New York, New York
• Nov. 7, 1785- Nov. 3, 1786
• Nov. 6, 1786- Oct. 30, 1787
• Nov. 5, 1787- Oct. 21, 1788
• Nov. 3, 1788- Mar. 2, 1789

See also

• List of Continental Congress Delegates
• President of the Continental Congress
• Articles of Confederation

External links

• Full text of Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789

Further reading

• Edmund C. Burnet;"The Continental Congress"; 1941; 1975 reprint, Greenwood Publishing, ISBN 0837183863.
• H. James Henderson; "Party Politics in the Continental Congress"; 1974, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0070281432; 2002 (paperback) reprint, Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 0819165255.
• Lynn Montross; "The Reluctant Rebels; the Story of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789"; 1950, Harper; 1970 reprint, Barnes & Noble, ISBN 038903973X.