The First Continental Congress

When was the First Continental Congress

September 1774

Who attended the first continental congress

All but Georgia sent at least one delegate - 56 delegates in total (radicals including Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, John and Samuel Adams, moderates including John Dickinson, Joseph Galloway)

When was the First Continental Congress

September 1774

Who attended the first continental congress

All but Georgia sent at least one delegate - 56 delegates in total (radicals including Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, John and Samuel Adams, moderates including John Dickinson, Joseph Galloway)

Suffolk Resolves when

(17) September 1774

Terms of Suffolk Resolves

• Coercive Acts NULL AND VOID

• Non-importation Br goods until Parliament repealed Coercive Acts

• Ban on exports to Br too

• Called on colonists for Continental Association for a united boycott

Declaration of Rights and Grievances when

(14) October 1774

Terms of Declaration of Rights and Grievances

• Declared allegiance to crown

• Denied that Colonies subject to Parliamentary authority - could not raise revenue without consent

• Right of colonial assemblies to determine need for troops within own province

When was next congress called for

May 1775

1774 what were created

Committees of safety; enforced the boycott, some acted in place of defunct local government, punished those who broke the Continental Association’s rules ie boycott (tarring and feathering etc.)

1774 what was situation in Boston/Mass.

British authority Massachusetts gone,Gage essentially besieged in Boston (asks for 20,000 extra troops)

Situation in early 1775

Most colonies have their own extra-legal conventions + committees and these expel traditional authority

Arms and ammunition stockpiled e.g. in Rhode Island militiamen seize cannon, arms and munitions (from British forts)

NY still loyal to Britain however

November 1774 what does Gage ask North to do

To temporarily suspend the Coercive Acts - but doesn’t comply

How many troops are sent by Britain to Boston

4000

February 1775 declaration

Massachusetts in a state of rebellion - declared by Parliament

March 1775 Dartmouth

Asks Gage in a letter to move against rebellion