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The First Continental Congress

The First Continental Congress. A Payten Daniel and Daniel Darling Production. What Was It??.

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The First Continental Congress

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  1. The First Continental Congress A Payten Daniel and Daniel Darling Production

  2. What Was It?? • A group of people that met briefly to consider options that included an economic boycott of British trade, publish a list of rights and grievances, and petition King George for redress of those grievances.

  3. Who Was In It?? • Twelve of the 13 colonies sent delegates • Some of the most prominent people of the era were among the 55 delegates, including: George Washington, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, John Jay, and John Dickinson • They were mostly people of social standing • Many were initially unknown to one another and vast differences existed on some of the issues

  4. Delegates • New Hampshire:John Sullivan, Nathaniel Folsam • Massachusetts Bay:John Adams, Samuel Adams, Thomas Cushing, Robert Treat Paine • Rhode Island:Stephen Hopkins, Samuel WardConnecticut:Eliphalet Dyer, Roger Sherman, Silas Deane • New York:Isaac Low, John Alsop, John Jay, James Duane, William Floyd, Henry Wisener, S. Bocrum • New Jersey:James Kinsey, William Livingston, Stephen Crane, Richard Smith • Pennsylvania:Joseph Gallaway, John Dickinson, Charles Humphreys, Thomas Miffin, Edward Biddle, John Morton, George Ross • Delaware:Caesar Rodney, Thomas Keane, George Readv • Maryland:Matthew Tilghman, Thomas Johnson, William Paca, Samuel Chase • Virginia:Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, Edmund Pendleton • North Carolina:William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, R. Caswell • South Carolina:Henry Middleton, Thomas Lynch, Christopher Gadsden, John Rutledge, Edward Rutledge • Note: There were no delegates from Georgia

  5. When Was This?? • September 5th, 1774 • They got together in Philadelphia’s Carpenters Hall • The idea of such a meeting was advanced a year earlier by Benjamin Franklin, but failed to gain support until after the Port of Boston was closed because of the Boston Tea Party

  6. Why Did This Happen?? • The Congress met briefly to consider options • The options included: ~an economic boycott of British trade ~ publish a list of rights and grievances ~ a petition to King George for redress of those Grievances

  7. What Were the Accomplishments? • There were two accomplishments • One; a compact among the colonies to boycott British goods beginning on December 1, 1774 • The boycott was successful but it was cut off by the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War • Second; to provide for a Second Continental Congress to meet on May 10, 1775

  8. Bibliography • http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h650.html • http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/congress.htm • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Continental_Congress

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