1st Continental Congress

All the colonies protested against the Intolerable Acts.

In Fall of 1774, delegates of all the colonies, except Georgia's, got together in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. What was this meeting for? Well, this was the First Continental Congress.

Included in Virginia's delegate was Patrick Henry. He was one of the most outstanding characters in this reunion, remembered by his speech. In this great speech he proclaimed, "The distinction between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders was no more. I am not Virginian, but American."

They created a boycott to go against these so called "Coercive Acts", and established committees to enforce this boycott. They also estableshed a government that bypassed the British Parliament and the crown. Since they involved common people in these committees, their political activity grew bigger.

After the Congress, in Spring of 1775, all the arriving immigrants marveled the people saying, "They are all Liberty Mad."