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Continental Congress

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United States Declaration of Independence

1776 assertion of colonial America's independence from Great Britain

Continental Congress

convention of delegates that became the governing body of the United States

Second Continental Congress

1775–1781 convention of the Thirteen Colonies

First Continental Congress

1774 meeting of delegates from twelve British colonies of what would become the United States

Congress of the Confederation

governing body of the United States of America that existed from March 1, 1781, to March 4, 1789

President of the Continental Congress

Largely ceremonial position under the Articles of Confederation

Committee of Five

Committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence

Charles Thomson

American patriot leader (1729-1824)

Annapolis Convention

1786 political convention among US states on inter-state trade

Carpenters' Hall

building in Philadelphia, United States

group of senior Continental Army officers

Continental Association

18th century American trade boycott with England

Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783

1783 protest of soldiers of the American Revolution who had not been paid

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms

1775 resolution of the US Continental Congress

building in Princeton, New Jersey, United States