Assembling representatives from every colony, the Continental Congress began as a coordinated effort to resist the British

CREDIT: Godefroy, François, artist. "Premiere Assemblèe Du Congres." Mixed method engraving. Illustration in Essais Historiques et Politiques sur la Revolution de l'Amerique Septentrionale, 1782. To Form a More Perfect Union The Work of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789, American Memory collections, Library of Congress.