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Meeting in Philadelphia, the First Continental Congress organized a unified colonial boycott, and agreed to meet again if their terms were not met.
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This congress met to discuss further unified colonial appeals, to plan protests and to manage the beginnings of military action against the British.
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Benjamin Franklin drafts a plan of union that based representation in congress
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John Dickinson's draft of the Articles of Confederation is submitted to Congress for debate and revision.
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Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is published to the world.
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The ratification of the Articles of Confederation by all thirteen states did not occur until March 1, 1781.