- It was a letter that King George that said the colonists can break free from England.
- NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
- Tar and Feather Is where they put tar on you and feathers from like a pillow and that is so sticky they have to scrub and scrub it off.
- Every colony brought two people to the meeting
- everybody would boycott everything that England provided to the colonies
- they asked king George to take off the town's act
- everybody went back to the second continental congress
- it was in Philadelphia
- Lexington congress marched and the Americans kept sneak attack people in the congress and they got into big fights
- Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson met at the continental congress
- the colonists complained and fought for separating from England
- They went to Philadelphia to come up with a plan for the war
- Thomas Pyne said that whoever is not a patriot is dumb
- the declaration said t why we are going to break free and why King George was not a good king
- On may 10 1779 representatives went to Philadelphia to the continental congress
- the three jobs , organized the colonies get to for the war,who should lead the war, they had to figure out what they were going to figure out what they were going to send.
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- There are 56 delicates in the second continental Congress
- They have decided to have George Washington
- There were 3-6 from each colony
- Massachusetts needed the most help
- Virginia was very big and important
- In the battle of Lexington nobody knows who shot the first fire but everybody just started shooting and killing everybody
- Joseph Warren got shot in the head
- The British did not know about the congress because they would get hung
- No ships could go through the Boston harbor so there was no trading happening
1. What did we decide during the 2nd Continental Congress? 2. What is one thing that you think everyone should know about the 2nd Continental Congress? 3. Why should more teachers try to connect with other classrooms when learning things like history? | 1. We decided that we wanted to break free from England. Some people sent a letter to King George that said what we wanted from England. 2. One thing everybody should know about the Second Continental Congress is from every colony there was a representative. There was a total of 56 people at the meeting. 3. More teachers should connect while learning about this because you can bounce ideas off of each other. They should also try to connect during this activity because you could ask questions that you don't know but they do so they could answer them. |