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3 years ago
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American colonists organized the first continental Congress to​

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Ronch [10]3 years ago
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On September 5, 1774, delegates from each of the 13 colonies (not geoorgia) met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.

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