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The Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence and established the United States, established the Continental Army and Navy, secured an alliance with France, and adopted the short-lived Articles of Confederation.
The Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall on May 10, 1775. With hostilities underway, the colonies looked to Congress to provide leadership in the war with Britain.
On June 14, 1775, meeting in Philadelphia, the Second Continental Congress created a Continental Army, to be formed out of the individual militias of the Thirteen Colonies. The next day, Congress created the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, and unanimously elected Washington to that position.
The Second Continental Congress was a pivotal institution in the early history of the United States, marking the transition from colonial grievance to independent governance.
He served as president of the Second Continental Congress from 1775-1777, as governor of Massachusetts from 1780-1785 and again from 1787-1793. He is best remembered for his flamboyant signature on the Declaration of Independence. John Hancock was born on 23 January 1737 in Braintree, Massachusetts (modern-day Quincy).
On May 15, 1776, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, issued a “Resolve” to the thirteen colonies. And the Second Continental Congress created the first continental system of governance: the Articles of Confederation.
The Second Continental Congress was the body of delegates that governed the Thirteen Colonies and, later, the United States during the American Revolutionary War. Between its first session in May 1775 and its disbandment in March 1781, the Congress oversaw the war effort, adopted the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation ...
Richard Henry Lee was a Founding Father, planter, and politician from Virginia, best known for introducing a resolution on June 7, 1776, during the Second Continental Congress — the Lee Resolution — that called for the colonies to declare independence from Britain.
The vote by the Continental Congress for independence took place on July 2, 1776; it took two days for the declaration to be ratified before being accepted as its final document on July 4, 1776. However, most signors of the declaration didn’t sign it until August 2, 1776.
As speaker of the Georgia House in which he acted as Governor of Georgia, and a strong advocate for rebellion, he was sent north to Philadelphia, representing Georgia in the Second Continental Congress (along with George Walton and Lyman Hall). He voted in favor of the Declaration of Independence that was adopted on July 2, 1776.