The Second Continental Congress

After the battles of Lexington and Concord, the colonists met in a second continental congress. The congress met in the state house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, now is called the Independence hall. These congress had some delegates that had not been at the first continental congress. Some of these delegates where Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Hancock that was the president of the continental congress. the congress included 65 delegates. The day the second continental congress met, Etha Allen and Benedict Arnold had captured fort Ticonderoga, on lake Champlain in New York.

In the second continental congress, many important things where decided, and one of them was when they decided to brake apart completley from Great Britain, and on may 15, 1776, they decided to oficially put the colonies in state of defense. They also decided to organze the militia of the colonies better, so they decided to form an army called the American Continental Army. And on june 14, 1776, George Washington was officialy appointed as commander in chief by the congress of the army. Another thing discussed by the congress, was if they were going to print paper money, these passed and paper money began to be printed later in the year. The second continental congress was one of the most important goverment meetings in the history of the United States Of America, because it decided some of the most important ideas by which the colonist fought for in the revolutionary war, because at that meeting, members of the continental congress wrote and signed The Declaration Of Independence.