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===Continental Congress and American Revolution=== | ===Continental Congress and American Revolution=== | ||
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In response to the [[Intolerable Acts]], which had punished | In response to the [[Intolerable Acts]], which had punished Boston for the [[Boston Tea Party]], the [[First Continental Congress]] met at [[Carpenters' Hall]] in [[Philadelphia]] from September 5, 1774, to October 26, 1774.<ref name="Declaration of Independence 1">{{cite book |title=The United States Declaration of Independence (Revisited) |last=Owensby |first=J. Jackson |year=2010 |publisher=A-Argus Books |isbn=978-0-9846195-4-2 |pages=348–349 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9TZfDs_yJPYC |access-date=May 28, 2011}}</ref> | ||
The convention organized a pact among the colonies to boycott British goods, the [[Continental Association]], starting December 1, 1774<ref name="Declaration of Independence 2">{{cite book |title=The United States Declaration of Independence (Revisited) |last=Owensby |first=J. Jackson |year=2010 |publisher=A-Argus Books |isbn=978-0-9846195-4-2 |page=374 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9TZfDs_yJPYC |access-date=May 28, 2011}}</ref> and provided for a [[Second Continental Congress]] in Philadelphia. | The convention organized a pact among the colonies to boycott British goods, the [[Continental Association]], starting December 1, 1774<ref name="Declaration of Independence 2">{{cite book |title=The United States Declaration of Independence (Revisited) |last=Owensby |first=J. Jackson |year=2010 |publisher=A-Argus Books |isbn=978-0-9846195-4-2 |page=374 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9TZfDs_yJPYC |access-date=May 28, 2011}}</ref> and provided for a [[Second Continental Congress]] in Philadelphia. | ||