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. In 1775, the Second Continental Congress convened after the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) had already begun. In 1776, it took the momentous step of declaring America’s independence from Britain. Five years later, the Congress ratified the first national constitution, the Articles of Confederation, under which the country would be governed until 1789, when it was replaced by the current U.S. Constitution.
Dorothy Vaughan had six children, so it was really hard to commit to them and science at the same time. But this reconciliation was, in her case, a philosophical matter of private and public interest. What she did as a scientist helped her children too, just like so many other children, and humanity in general. As a mother, she naturally missed her children and wanted to spend more time with them; but she had this other mission as well, which was even more important, in terms of humanity.
Had a great deal of power over the monarchy
<span>Although it is popularly believed that the German army was the first to use gas it was in fact initially deployed by the French. In the first month of the war, August 1914, they fired tear-gas grenades against the Germans. </span>
