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In the spring and summer of 1774, the British Parliament passed a series of laws known as the Coercive Acts to punish the colony of Massachusetts for the destruction of tea, known as the Boston Tea Party. Colonists quickly deemed those acts as “intolerable.”
Colonies sent delegates to Philadelphia to devise a unified response to the Coercive Acts.
In the first pages of the Rough Journals of the Continental Congress is a record of the 56 delegates sent to Philadelphia.
Most of those delegates did not know each other when they arrived, and most had never been to Philadelphia. Interestingly, more of them had been to London, underscoring the strong connection between the colonies and Great Britain.
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📸: Rough Journals of the First Continental Congress. Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention
In the spring and summer of 1774, the British Parliament passed a series of laws known as the Coercive Acts to punish the colony of Massachusetts for the destruction of tea, known as the Boston Tea Party. Colonists quickly deemed those acts as “intolerable.”
Colonies sent delegates to Philadelphia to devise a unified response to the Coercive Acts.
In the first pages of the Rough Journals of the Continental Congress is a record of the 56 delegates sent to Philadelphia.
Most of those delegates did not know each other when they arrived, and most had never been to Philadelphia. Interestingly, more of them had been to London, underscoring the strong connection between the colonies and Great Britain.
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📸: Rough Journals of the First Continental Congress. Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention
