Continental Congress

Definition: Continental Congress

Continental Congress

Noun

1. The legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution; they issued the Declaration of Independence and framed Articles of Confederation.

Specialty Definition: 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.

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
President of the United States in Congress assembled

External links

Full text of Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Continental Congress."

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Crosswords: Continental Congress

English words defined with "Continental Congress": Declaration of Independence ♦ Hancock, Henry Laurens, Huntington ♦ John Hancock ♦ Laurens, Livingston ♦ Robert R. Livingston ♦ Samuel Huntington ♦ The Liberty Bell. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Continental Congress": FRANKLIN. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Continental Congress

Domain	Title
Books	Biographical Directory of the American Congress 1774-1996: The Continental Congress September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788 and the Congress of the un (reference) Forged in War: The Continental Congress and the Origin of Military Supply and Acquisition Policy (Contributions in Military Studies) (reference) Index: Papers of the Continental Congress 1774-1789 (reference) North Carolinians in the Continental Congress (reference) Party Politics in the Continental Congress (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Proceedings Of The Continental Congress Of The National Society Of The Daughters Of The American Revolution (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Photo Album: Continental Congress

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	Mrs. Ashmead White, fourth from left, president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, stands with six new vice presidents general elected at April 20 session of the DAR's 70th Continental Congress in Washington. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Expression: Continental Congress

Expression using "Continental Congress": The Continental Congress. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Continental Congress

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
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the first continental congress	44
second continental congress	34
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Anagrams: Continental Congress

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