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 ...
Throughout these symbols, as well as within imagery throughout ... comes into play. Before the Continental Congress was ...
The bald eagle has been the symbol of the nation since June 20, 1782, when the Second Continental Congress adopted the Great ...