sep 5, 1774 - First Continental Congress

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Meeting of delegates from 12 of the Thirteen Colonies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; called in response the Intolerable Acts; considered options, including an economic boycott of British trade, and wrote down a list of rights and grievances; petitioned King George III for rectification of those grievancecs and called for another Congress in case the petition was unsuccessful (it was)

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