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CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution; they issued the Declaration of Independence and framed Articles of Confederation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Continental Congress" is a kind of...):
congress (a meeting of elected or appointed representatives)
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