Second+Continental+Congress

=The Second= =continental congress=

[] The Second Continental Congress has a lot of the same people as the first continental congress. The Second Continental Congress was a group of fifty-six delegates who were against the British laws and taxes. They first met on May 10, 177​5, in Philidelphia. They met to find ways to stop the British from making unfair laws or taxes without the colonists getting to say anything. They were also the ones who wrote the Declaration of IndependanceDeclaration of Independence, so that the colonies could have freedom. On July 8, 1775, they passed the declaration that the colonists had the right to bear arms. They passed the entire Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. On March 1, 1781, the Second Continental Congress had the Articles of Confederation take over! The fifty-six delegates were from all diferent places. Two were from New Hampshire, four were from Masachusetts, two from Rhode Island,three from Connecticut, nine from New York, five from New Jersey, eight from Pensylvania, three from Delware, seven from Virginia, three from North Carolina, and five from South Carolina. Th fifty-six delegates names were, Nathaniel Folsman, John Sullivan, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Thomas Cushing, Robert Treat Paine, Stephen Hopkins, Samuel Ward, Silas Deane, Eliphalet Dyer, Roger Sherman, James Duane, John Jay, Philip Livingston, Isaac Low, Simon Boerum, John Haring, Henry Wisner, William Floyd, Stephen Crane, John De Heart, James Kinsey, William Livingston, Richard Smith, Edward Biddle, John Dickson, Joseph Galloway, Charles Humphreys, Thomas Mifflin, John Morton, Samuel Rhoads, George Ross, Thomas Mckeen, George Read, Caesar Rhodney, Samuel Chase, Robert Goldsborough, Thomas Johnson, William Paca, Mathew Tilghman, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee,