Question

The delegates of all the colonies except Georgia met at Philadelphia in 1774 to protest against the policies and rules imposed by England. It is known as the :

• A. Second Continental Congress
• B. Constitutional Convention
• C. Declaration of Independence
• D. First Continental Congress

Answer 1

Answer:

D. First Continental Congress

Boston Tea Party

• The high tax levied by the British government on tea fired up strong protest in America.

• On 16 December 1773, a group of people disguised as the Red Indians, boarded the ships at night in the Boston Harbour and threw 342 chests of tea into the sea. This protest is known as the Boston Tea Party.

• Everyone has some fundamental rights. No government has the right to suspend them - John locke

• There is something absurd, in supposing a continent (North America) be perpetually governed by a foreign power (England). - Thomas paine

• The delegates of all the colonies except Georgia met at Philadelphia in 1774 to protest against the policies and rules imposed by England. It is known as the First Continental Congress.

• The Second Continental Congress held at Philadelphia in 1775 elected George Washington as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.

• The American Continental Congress issued the famous Declaration of Independence on 4 July 1776.

• The declaration was prepared by Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin.

• The war between England and the colonies in North America that began with the Declaration of Freedom, ended in 1781.

• According to the Treaty of Paris in 1783, England ratified the freedom of thirteen colonies.

• The Constitution Convention held at Philadelphia under the leadership of James Madison, framed the American Constitution