At the recent convention of first continental in Philadelphia voted to establish the organized colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. It was a meeting between the 12 British representatives colonies (except Georgia) to become the United States.
The representatives of all the 12 British colonies met at Carpenter Hall in Philadelphia from 5th September to 26th October 1774. The congress also gave vote to come for the following year’s meeting if their problems were not solved of it they did not get satisfactory solution.
About 470,693 square miles (1.22 million km²)
True it is practiced in the same way by all groups across North Africa
The united states was neutral at the beginning of most wars