Episode 048: The First Continental Congress

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

History, Education

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Parliament closed the Port of Boston following the Boston Tea Party. In response, colonial leaders met in Philadelphia in a "Grand Congress." Tories supported the Congress as a way of putting off local talk of boycotts. They hoped emotions would cool after a few months. The Patriots hoped to use the Congress to enact a continent-wide boycott and present a united front in opposition to Parliament. The summer of 1774, brought news of more of London's Coercive Acts. When Congress convened in September, public opinion favored the radicals. Congress issued the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, petitioned the King for repeal of the Coercive Acts, and agreed to a boycott of almost all trade until London met colonial demands. Visit my site at https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com for more text, pictures, maps, and sources on this topic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.3	Hello, and thank you for joining the American Revolution.
0:52.3	Today, episode 48, the First Continental Congress.
0:58.2	During the fall of 1774, at the same time the colonists in Massachusetts
1:03.0	were taking military and political control of the colony,
1:07.4	colonial leaders headed to Philadelphia to see if they could coordinate a peaceful yet effective response
1:13.7	to the coercive acts.
1:15.8	Back in episode 45, I discussed how in June 1774 Samuel Adams had gotten the Massachusetts
1:23.5	Assembly to call for the Congress.
1:26.4	After Gage closed Boston Harbor and moved the legislature to
1:30.4	Salem, Adams locked the assembly doors, passed a resolution calling for a Continental Congress in September.
1:38.0	The legislature appointed himself, his cousin John Adams, the Speaker Thomas Cushing, Robert Treat Payne, and James Bowden
1:47.7	to the delegation that would attend. He did this all while the governor's representative
1:53.4	was screaming outside the locked doors that the assembly was dissolved and that all of this
1:59.2	was illegal. Even so, the invitation went out to the other
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