Answer: The SECOND Continental Congress.
The First Continental Congress had met in Philadelphia in September/October, 1774, in regard to what the colonies saw as "Intolerable Acts" passed by British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. That meeting had called for a second congress to meet if the British did not respond satisfactorily to the colonists' concerns.
So, when Britain did not yield, the American colonies convened the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, beginning in May, 1775. The Philadelphia sessions of the Second Continental Congress lasted till December, 1776. There followed further sessions of the Second Continental Congress that continued through 1781, not only in Philadelphia, but also in Baltimore, Maryland, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and York, Pennsylvania.
One of the main reasons why the US government wanted to keep the number of free states and slave states equal during this time was to avoid war between the north and the south, which didn't happen of course.
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more republican issue positions have shaped federal policy
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Shay's Rebellion, over the issue of refusing to pay federal taxes, showed most state political leaders that a stronger national, central (or federal) government was needed. All agreed that a group of states uniting against the federal government would lead to either dissolution or a civil war.
The federal government was given the sole power to regulate trade and alliances with foreign countries.
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