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1st Continental Congress

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September 1774
Philadelphia, PA Independence Hall
56 men from 12 colonies (not Georgia), Sam and John Adams from MA, Patrick Henry from VA
"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"
boycott on all taxed British goods, letter to king stating loyalty to him not Parliament
volunteer soldiers who were ready to fight in a moments notice
British storehouse for gunpowder was attacked

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