The First Continental Congress formed in response to the British Parliament's passage of the Intolerable Acts (called the Coercive Acts in England), which aimed to punish Massachusetts for the ...

click image for close-up John Trumbull's life-size painting of the First Continental Congress, assembled to sign the Declaration of Independence, was copied from a miniature (21.2 x 31.2 inches ...

are part of a select group of teacher-student duos chosen to represent the 13 original colonies in the first-ever Young People’s Continental Congress. The group is already involved in online ...