Institution
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was the assembly of delegates from the thirteen American colonies that met from May 1775, after fighting had begun at Lexington and Concord. It created the Continental Army under George Washington, adopted the Declaration of Independence on 4 July 1776 and the Articles of Confederation, and governed the United States until 1781, when it became the Congress of the Confederation.
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