Delegates

New Hampshire:

John Sullivan, Nathaniel Folsom

Massachusetts Bay:

John Adams, Samuel Adams, Thomas Cushing, Robert Treat Paine

Rhode Island:

Stephen Hopkins, Samuel Ward

Connecticut Eliphalet Dyer, Roger Sherman, Silas Deane

New York: Isaac Low, John Alsop, John Jay, Philip Livingston, James Duane, William Floyd, Henry Wisner, Simon Boerum

New Jersey: James Kinsey, William Livingston, Stephen Crane, Richard Smith, John De Hart

Pennsylvania:

Joseph Galloway, John Dickinson, Charles Humphreys, Thomas Miffin, Edward Biddle, John Morton, George Ross

Delaware: Caesar Rodney, Thomas McKean, George Read

Maryland: Matthew Tilghman, Thomas Johnson, William Paca, Samuel Chase, Robert Goldsborough

Virginia: Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, Edmund Pendleton

North Carolina:

William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, Richard Caswell

South Carolina:

Henry Middleton, Thomas Lynch, Jr., Christopher Gadsden, John Rutledge, Edward Rutledge

Delegates

Galloway Plan of Union The first order of business was consideration of Pennsylvania Joseph Galloway's plan for the creation of an American Parliament to act in concert with the existing British body.

•colonies hold in abhorrence the idea of being considered independent of the British government

•desire a political union, not only among themselves but with the mother state

• chose principles of freedom which are essential in the constitution of all free governments

•Suffolk ResolvesBefore the Galloway proposal could be decided, Paul Revere rode into town bearing the Suffolk Resolves, a series of political statements that had been forwarded to Philadelphia by a number of Boston-area communities.

•Coercive Acts to be unconstitutional and void

•urged Massachusetts to establish a separate free state until the Coercive Acts were repealed

•future tax collections be retained by the new Massachusetts government and not passed along to British officials

•boycott of British goods and trade

•people of Massachusetts to appoint militia officers and armed volunteers

•warned General Thomas Gage that efforts to arrest citizens on political charges would result in the detention of the arresting officers

Declaration of Rights and Grievances

The Congress composed a statement of American complaints.

It was addressed to King George III, to whom the delegates remained loyal, and pointedly, not to Parliament. In it, the delegates asserted that the colonists had certain rights which included, "life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever a right to dispose of either without their consent."

John Dickinson PA 1)appeal to King George III

2) list of colonial grievances

3)America and British relations - “wonder and envy of other nations”

***Reconciliation with the British / Loyalty to Crown*** CC sympathetic approval / King George III reject- Quebec factor

Common Sense January 1776

July 4, 1776 Second Continental Congress

Thomas Jefferson / Ben Franklin / Robert Livingston / John Adams / Roger Sherman

Conclusion of Revolutionary War

(1)American Independence is recognized / boundaries Mississippi and Lakes

(2) British pledge to vacate all military posts in the New World

(3)America pledge to ask states to make fair settlement for loss of land

Franklin

AdamsJay

United States of America

Articles of Confederation

The Articles of The Articles of Confederation Confederation America’s 1st Constitution 1781-1789

The Articles had 2 major achievements:

1)Bringing the Revolutionary War to a successful conclusion

2) North West Ordinance (plan for governing the western lands)