![]() ![]() ![]() During this period, its achievements included: Successfully managing the war effort drafting the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, the first U.S. All thirteen colonies were represented by the time the Congress adopted the Lee Resolution which declared independence from Britain on July 2, 1776, and the congress agreed to the Declaration of Independence two days later.Īfterward, Congress functioned as the provisional government of the United States of America through March 1, 1781. ![]() The Second Congress functioned as a de facto national government at the outset of the Revolutionary War by raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and writing petitions such as the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms and the Olive Branch Petition. This came shortly after the Battles of Lexington and Concord and was in succession to the First Continental Congress which met from September 5 to October 26, 1774. The Congress convened in Philadelphia, then the federal capital, on May 10, 1775, with representatives from 12 of the 13 colonies. The Congress created a new country that it first named the United Colonies, and in 1776, renamed the United States of America. The Second Continental Congress was a late-18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolutionary War. ![]()
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