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Historical Thinking  Skills - Synthesis 1754 to 1774

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Albany Congress [Albany, NY]   7 of 13 colonies represented

 Met from June 19 to July 11, 1754 to discussed relations with Native Americans and REJECTED the collective security
arrangement proposed by Benjamin Franklin  [Albany Plan of Union]

 

 

 

Stamp Act Congress [New York City]  9 of 13 colonies represented

Met from October 7 to 25 1765 to devise a unified protest against new British taxation.

 


 

 

 “The only representatives of the people of these colonies are persons chosen therein by themselves;

and that no taxes ever have been, or can be constitutionally imposed on them but by their respective legislatures.”

 

 

 

First Continental Congress [Philadelphia]  12 of 13 colonies represented
Met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 to discuss a unified protest against the Coercive or Intolerable  Acts.

 

 

 

 

 

The Second Continental Congress (1775 to 1781) 13 of 13 colonies represented

A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774, also in Philadelphia.

 

The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. By raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties, the Congress acted as the de facto national government of what became the United States. With the ratification of the Articles of Confederation, the Congress became known as the Congress of the Confederation.

 

 

 

 

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