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The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, ... The plan was considered very attractive to most of the members, as it proposed a popularly elected Grand Council which would represent the interests of the colonies as a whole, and would be a continental equivalent to the English Parliament.
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John Hancock, one of Boston's most affluent and least loyal merchants, fought back by giving tacit support to what became known as the Boston Tea Party. Later, in 1775, he would be elected President of the Second Continental Congress. ... The first closed the port of Boston until the ruined tea was paid for.
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First Continental Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen British North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylva...
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The First Continental Congress (Sept. 5–Oct. 26, 1774) was made up of delegates from all the colonies except Georgia. It met in Carpenter's ... The meeting's general purpose was to express colonial grievances against British policy, and only a few radical members considered the possibility of breaking with England.
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First Continental Congress - October 1774 ... FRtR > Documents > First Continental Congress ... Whereupon the deputies so appointed being now assembled, in a full and free representation of these Colonies, taking into their most serious consideration the best means of attaining the ends aforesaid, do in the first place,
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The First Continental Congress ... Whereupon the deputies so appointed being now assembled, in a full and free representation of these Colonies, taking into their most serious consideration the best means of attaining the ends aforesaid, do in the first place, as Englishmen their ancestors in like cases have usually done,
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Most members of the First Continental Congress hoped that a commercial boycott would Induce the British government to accede to their demands. On October 20, 1774, the Congress voted for nonimportation, nonconsumption, and nonexportation, virtually cutting off trade with Britain.
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The First Continental Congress brought together representatives from each of the colonies, except Georgia, to discuss their response to the British "Intolerable Acts." ... The members agreed to boycott British goods and passed resolutions asserting colonial rights. They also agreed to meet again in May 1775, if the British...
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Resolved, N.C.D. 2. That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural- born subjects, within the realm of England.
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