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 6½-foot bronze statue is on loan from George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate and will sit in the Capitol for the next ...