The First Continental congress

The First Continental congress

The British were punishing the colonist and thought that the consequences that were dealt to punish Massachusetts would scare the colonist straight and no one else would try something else. The response was the total opposite though, the colonist were angered by this and all stuck together to fight for the rights that they deserved. While all these things were happening to the colonist they were so fed up about this that each state came up with representative who voiced their opinion and be able to represent the true feelings of the colonist. This was the First Continental Congress which met in September of 1774 in Philadelphia and was to meet again in May of 1775. This was something new for everyone and as the author of the book says many people were in awe of this and commented ‘The laws would be like ‘of the Medes and Persians, which must not be altered’” which was in the bible. Many men were sent to this first congress by the colonies Massachusetts sent John and Samuel Adams (cousins). All the men that went were in for a great surprise because it was nothing like they could ever think up. The main goal of the first continental congress was to come up with ways to get the attention of the British and make them give the colonist representation on Parliament. After the consequences of the Boston tea party their focus changed from trying to get a representation to trying to establish a country with rules and guidelines and the Declaration of independence and the Constitution.  This is how we got our government and this was also our first congress and this would stay in place until today.