Question

What happened at the First Continental Congress? Who was involved? When did it happen? Where did it happen? And, of course, why did it happen? Any meaningful result of this gathering of 50 or so 50-or-so-year-old rich, white guys?

Answer 1

• From 1774 to 1789, the Continental Congress served as the government of the 13 American colonies and later the United States.
• The First Continental Congress, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes.
• On September 5, 1774, delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia (which was fighting a Native-American uprising and was dependent on the British for military supplies) met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament’s Coercive Acts.
• The delegates included a number of future luminaries, such as future presidents John Adams of Massachusetts and George Washington of Virginia, and future U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice and diplomat John Jay of New York.
• One of the first proposals made during the First Continental Congress was the Suffolk Resolves. This plan called for the colony of Massachusetts to stockpile military arms and boycott British goods as a protest against the Intolerable Acts.
• Proposed on September 9 by Dr. Joseph Warren, it passed on September 17 as a bold stand against British authority. Included in the Suffolk Resolves was a powerful pronouncement that the colonists would not pay allegiance to King George III as long as he ignored their demands.
• Members of the First Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Association on October 20, which threatened an embargo against English goods. The colonists told the British Parliament that they would discontinue trade with England until the Intolerable Acts were revoked.
• The colonists' policy of "continental association" meant that colonists would not purchase British goods and would not trade with British companies. A boycott of British goods would take effect in December 1774 if the king did not agree to their demands; an embargo on exports to Britain, in September 1775.
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