The First Continental Congress Apex
The Declaration of Independence
When in the grade of human events . . .
Kickoff Continental Congress
Proceedings of the First Continental Congress
Carpenter's Hall
The offset Continental Congress met in Carpenter'south Hall in Philadelphia, from September five, to October 26, 1774. Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. These were elected past the people, past the colonial legislatures, or by the committees of correspondence of the respective colonies. The colonies presented there were united in a determination to show a combined potency to Dandy Great britain, but their aims were non uniform at all. Pennsylvania and New York sent delegates with firm instructions to seek a resolution with England. The other colonies voices were defensive of colonial rights, but pretty evenly divided betwixt those who sought legislative parity, and the more radical members who were prepared for separation. Virginia's delegation was fabricated up of a most even mix of these and non incidentally, presented the nearly eminent group of men in America. Colo. George Washington, Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Edmund Pendleton, Colo. Benjamin Harrison, Richard Bland, and at the head of them Peyton Randolph — who would immediately be elected president of the convention.
The objectives of the body were not entirely clear but, with such leadership as was found there, a core set of tasks was carried out. It was agreeable to all that the King and Parliament must be made to understand the grievances of the colonies and that the body must exercise everything possible to communicate the aforementioned to the population of America, and to the remainder of the world.
The starting time few weeks were consumed in discussion and contend. The colonies had e'er, up to this time, acted as independent entities. There was much distrust to overcome. The first matter to be considered by all was A Plan of Union of Neat Great britain and the Colonies, offered past Joseph Galloway of Pennsylvania. The programme 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. Poised against this would be a President Full general, appointed by the crown, to stand for the authority of the king in America. Conflict in Boston overcame the effort at conciliation. The arrival of the Suffolk County (Boston) resolves only prior to the vote on the Plan of Wedlock, caused it to be discarded past a narrow margin.
On October fourteen, the Proclamation and Resolves established the course of the congress, as a argument of principles common to all of the colonies. Congress voted to run across over again the following year if these grievances were not attended to by England.
Several days afterwards, on the 20th, came The Association, which was patterned after the Virginia Association and others that followed. This was a pact for nonimportation of English goods, to establish mechanisms throughout the colonies to enforce and regulate the resistance to Keen Britain, and to keep the channels of advice open. It was to become effective on December 1, 1774 unless parliament should rescind the Intolerable Acts.
Delegates
| New Hampshire: | John Sullivan, Nathaniel Folsom |
| | John Adams, Samuel Adams, Thomas Cushing, Robert Treat Paine |
| Rhode Island: | Stephen Hopkins, Samuel Ward |
| Connecticut: | Eliphalet Dyer, Roger Sherman, Silas Deane |
| New York: | Isaac Low, John Alsop, John Jay, Philip Livingston, James Duane, William Floyd, Henry Wisner, Simon Boerum |
| New Jersey: | James Kinsey, William Livingston, Stephen Crane, Richard Smith, John De Hart |
| Pennsylvania: | Joseph Galloway, John Dickinson, Charles Humphreys, Thomas Miffin, Edward Biddle, John Morton, George Ross |
| Delaware: | Caesar Rodney, Thomas McKean, George Read |
| Maryland: | Matthew Tilghman, Thomas Johnson, William Paca, Samuel Hunt, Robert Goldsborough |
| Virginia: | Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, Edmund Pendleton |
| North Carolina: | William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, Richard Caswell |
| South Carolina: | Henry Middleton, Thomas Lynch, Jr., Christopher Gadsden, John Rutledge, Edward Rutledge |
The First Continental Congress Apex,
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