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The Second Continental Congress was the late 18th-century meeting 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.
The Second Continental Congress was the governing body of the Thirteen Colonies and, later, the United States during the American Revolution. It was established on 10 May 1775 and disbanded on 1 March 1781.
In 1775, the Second Continental Congress convened after the Revolutionary War had already begun. In 1776, it took the momentous step of declaring America’s independence from Britain.
Continental Congress, the body of delegates who spoke and acted collectively for the people of the colony-states that later became the United States of America. The term refers specifically to the bodies that met in 1774 and 1775–81, respectively designated as the First and Second Continental Congress.
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.
The Second Continental Congress met inside Independence Hall beginning in May 1775. It was just a month after shots had been fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, and the Congress was preparing for war.
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of colonial delegates that began meeting in May 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after the beginning of the Revolutionary War. In this guide, we’ve explained what the Second Continental Congress did, and how it started.
Convened in May, 1775, the Second Continental Congress decreed that a Continental Army be formed under the command of George Washington, and that Thomas Jefferson and four collaborators prepare a document officially declaring independence from Britain.
Unlike the first Congress, the second would remain established almost permanently until the last fighting of the Revolutionary War in 1781. Its most notable achievement during this time was the decision to declare independence, first taken in June 1776 after a motion by Richard Henry Lee.
On June 14 and 15, Congress created a continental army “to defend the Lives, Liberties and Immunities of the Colonists” and adopted a comprehensive set of military regulations designed to govern the troops. George Washington was appointed commander-in-chief.