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Continental Congress
convention of delegates that became the governing body of the United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies. It governed the colonies before and during the American Revolution and met three times from 1774 to 1789.
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