Pre Revolutionary War

First Continental Congress begins

Sep 5, 1774

First Continental Congress
A meeting of representatives from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.

Fist Continental Congress Ends

May 1, 1775

Second Continental Congress begins

May 10, 1775

Second Continental Congress
A group of representatives from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer in 1775 which managed the colonial war effort and moved moved towards independence. They wrote the United States Declaration of Independence.

Olive Branch Congrss

Jul 5, 1775

was improved by the Second continental Congress on July 5, 1775, in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies and Britain.

Prohibitory Act

Sep 29, 1775

was passed as a vengeance scheme by Great Britain against the mutiny then going on in the American colonies, which became known as the American Revolutionary War. This Act called for a naval blockade of the ports of America

Second Continental Congress ending

Jul 4, 1776

The Declaration of Independence was Improved

Jul 4, 1776

Improved the idea of having the thirteen American colonies as newly independent colonies.