sep 1, 1774 - 1st Continental Congress
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55 elected delegates, 12 coloniesTotal strangers to each other
Coordinated the patriot colonists' resistance to increasingly harsh and restrictive British rule
A compact among the colonies to boycott British goods beginning on December 1, 1774, unless parliament should rescind the Intolerable Acts
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sep 1, 1774
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~ 251 years ago