Continental Congress

How To Use Continental Congress In A Sentence

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• Continental Congress all the western lauds, that is, all of what is now The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790
• Southern delegates to the Continental Congress expressed unwillingness to use their militias outside their own borders.
• When the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.
• These committees were in some measure self-constituted and may have had some continuity with pre-Revolutionary committees, but most were formed in response to the recommendation of the First Continental Congress in 1774, to enforce the Continental Association against trade with Britain. History from Below
• The Second Continental Congress long insisted that it was fighting only to restore English rights to the settlers under the traditional government of the empire.
• These new American states bound themselves into a revolutionary alliance that worked first through the Continental Congress and then, beginning in 1781, the Articles of Confederation.
• * The term committee in those ear'y days was sometimes applied even to the Continental Congress (see Jones 'Defence; and the veteran John Simeson, speaker of the authorized County Committees or Congresses.) On the other hand, the ancestral name of McKnitt was held by no family in the county, and he accepted the soubriquet from the mouth of those who held him in the highest esteem both in Church and State. Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians
• As the Revolution developed, he became "a zealous Whig" who served in the Continental Congress, the only member who wore clerical bands in 1776.
• Without was the paper money of the Continental Congress, within the good tafia and tobacco of Monsieur Vigo. The Crossing