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[[File:1-congress.jpg|thumb|190px|left]]The colonies, without British permission, formed the First Continental Congress in 1774 to protest British clampdown on Boston.  They used [[]] as their meeting place.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MAvVAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA38 The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook]</ref>

[[File:1-congress.jpg|thumb|190px|left]]The colonies, without British permission, formed the First Continental Congress in 1774 to protest British clampdown on Boston.  They used [[Carpenters' Hall]] as their meeting place.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=MAvVAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA38 The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook]</ref>

Leaders such as Adams argued that there must be a general government to regulate trade, to prevent civil war among the colonies, and to suppress internal dissension. Nothing was done. 55 delegates represented twelve of the [[Thirteen Colonies]] ([[Georgia]] did not send a representative). This body debated over what the colonies should do, if anything, in reaction to the [[Intolerable Acts]] passed by [[Parliament]] that year. The First Continental Congress successfully boycotted British goods coming into the colonies, drastically reducing imports. It agreed that a Second Continental Congress should meet in 1775.

Leaders such as Adams argued that there must be a general government to regulate trade, to prevent civil war among the colonies, and to suppress internal dissension. Nothing was done. 55 delegates represented twelve of the [[Thirteen Colonies]] ([[Georgia]] did not send a representative). This body debated over what the colonies should do, if anything, in reaction to the [[Intolerable Acts]] passed by [[Parliament]] that year. The First Continental Congress successfully boycotted British goods coming into the colonies, drastically reducing imports. It agreed that a Second Continental Congress should meet in 1775.