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met in order to organize resistance to parliaments cohesive acts.
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia in May 1775, soon after the launch of the American Revolutionary War
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It was a document in which the colonists pledged their loyalty to the crown and asserted their rights as British citizens.
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British legislation in late 1775 that cut off all trade between the American colonies and England, and removed the colonies from the King's protection.
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The Declaration explained why the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.