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  2. List of United States Congresses - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the several United States Congresses, since their beginning in 1789, including their beginnings, endings, and the dates of their individual sessions. Each elected bicameral Congress (of the two chambers of the Senate and the House of Representatives ) lasts for two years and begins on January 3 of odd-numbered years.

  3. Continental Congress - Wikipedia

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    The Continental Congress was a series of legislative bodies, with some executive function, for the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain in North America, and the newly declared United States before, during, and after the American Revolutionary War. The Continental Congress refers to both the First and Second Congresses of 1774–1781 and at the ...

  4. History of the United States Congress - Wikipedia

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    Congress Voting Independence, by Robert Edge Pine, depicts the Second Continental Congress voting in 1776.. Although one can trace the history of the Congress of the United States to the First Continental Congress, which met in the autumn of 1774, [2] the true antecedent of the United States Congress was convened on May 10, 1775, with twelve colonies in attendance.

  5. Timeline of the American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Declaration of Independence - Second Continental Congress approves the written "United States Declaration of Independence" (July 4) Sons of Liberty topple the statue of King George III in Bowling Green (July 9) Battle of Long Island, a.k.a. Battle of Brooklyn (August 27) - British victory; British occupation of New York for the duration of the war.

  6. First Continental Congress - Wikipedia

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    Rather than calling for independence, the First Continental Congress passed and signed the Continental Association in its Declaration and Resolves, which called for a boycott of British goods to take effect in December 1774. After Congress signed on October 20, 1774, embracing non exportation they also planned nonimportation of slaves beginning ...

  7. Second Continental Congress - Wikipedia

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    The Second Continental Congress (1775–1781) was the meetings of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War, which established American independence from the British Empire.

  8. Continental Congress, families faced hardship during, after ...

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    This series is part of the buildup to major anniversaries ahead from 2024 to 2028: 275th of York County’s founding and 250th of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of ...

  9. History of the United States (1776–1789) - Wikipedia

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    America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814757802. JSTOR j.ctt9qg7q2. Nevins, Allan (1927). The American States during and after the Revolution, 1775–1789. Macmillan. ISBN 9780598500663. Archived from the original on 2008-02-21; Norton, Mary Beth (2020). 1774: The Long Year of Revolution. Knopf ...