<span>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.</span>
The Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts were passed in 1651 to stop trade between the British colonies and competing European countries such as France and The Netherlands.
The Navigation Acts were passed by Great Britain to limited all trade to and from the colonies to English vessels. With all trade limited to English vessels, the colonies were unable to trade goods with any other country. Though this law was put into place in 1651 it was not always enforced. Especially after the turn of the 18th century. The colonies went through a period of neglect until the French-Indian (Seven Years') War. The period allowed the colonies to build their own trade leaving the Navigation Acts primarily ignored until the Revolutionary Period.
"b. An atom is solid material" would be an example of something that is now considered scientifically inaccurate, since we now know that the atom is actually mostly open space.
