unanimously elected John Hanson their nation's first president, the highest position in the land, as nationhood was thus completed and the Second Continental Congress passed into history. John Hanson ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress ... managed to avoid a retaliatory war with France through diplomacy. Adams was the first president to take up ...

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 ...

On July 4, only John Hancock, the president of the Continental Congress, and Charles Thomson ... until six months later when America won its first great victory in the war. Wrote New Jersey ...

First, the president lacks executive authority explicitly ... Congress retained portions of the executive power that the Continental Congress had wielded under the Articles of Confederation.

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