Chapter 16

Question 0

Second Continental Congress

Answer 0

• Naming George Washington as general of the American armies
• Producing the Declaration of Independence (it took more than a year to get that done)
• The Congress did more than those too but that is what made it famous
• congress is a body, a legislative body

Question 1

Delegates

Answer 1

• a person who is elected by people of their colony to represent them with all their problems and questions/ideas
• Examples of Delegates:
  1) Richard Henry Lee
  2) Patrick Henry
  3) Benjamin Harnson
  4) Francis Hopkins
  5) Thomas Jefferson
  6) Stephen Hopkins
  7) Button Gwinnett
  8) Philip Livingston
  9) Joseph Hewes
  10) Sam Adams

Question 2

Goals of Continental Congress

Answer 2

-Goals in the first Continental Congress were made up away to get rid of the stamp act and colony problems
-Results:
Got rid of stamp act and came up with 10 resolutions for colony problems
-Goals in the Second Continental Congress:
make a way to declaring independence to the colonies
solved more colony problems
-created a colony army
Results:
Name George Washington America General
Producing the Declaration of Independence
-solved more problems