The first contenital congress

In the Eighteenth century the 1st and 2nd Continental Congress was fashioned by the clash between the Moderates,Radicals, and Conservatives. Between the collection, the one with the most convincing claim were the Radicals.The Radicals trusted that the relationship with the British was over,the only thing to do was to gain Independence, and also to unite the colonies and fight.



The First Continental Congress was a body of representatives appointed by the legislatures of Twelve of the colonies except Georgia. Initially also formed to coordinate a common American response to the Intolerable Acts,The First Continental Congress was held in Philadelphia in 1774, with 55 members. The three distinct groups were the Moderates, Radicals, And Conservatives. The Moderates believe that the relationship between the colonies and the mother counties could still be fixed . The Conservatives thought that the colonies could go back to how everything had been in the past.The Radicals believe that action had to be taken , immediate Independence. The Congress had two primary accomplishments. First, the Congress drafted the "Articles of Association" on October 20, 1774. The Articles formed a compact among the colonies to boycott British goods beginning on December 1, 1774.The second accomplishment of the Congress was to provide for a Second Continental Congress to meet on May 10, 1775.


Though many were opposed to taking the colonies independence, the Radicals wanted change. The Radicals were made up of representatives from Virginia , Massachusetts , and Pennsylvania.Some names of these representatives are John Adams, Patrick Henry,and Charles Thomson.During the arguments in the first Continental Congress's meetings the radicals expressed that the relationship between the colonies and the mother country had already been broken. This meant that either they rise up for what they believed in or live under someone Else's rule forever unhappily.They also concluded that the Parliament had no right and or authority to tax them. Unfortunately the other two groups ( the moderate and the conservatives) did not share the same ideas. Both groups though it to rash and hasty to rebel .

By the end of the congress's deliberation the agreed with the radicals and decided to make the Suffolk Resolves. It was a declaration to
boycott British imports, curtail exports, and refuse to use British products;
ignore the punitive measures taken against Massachusetts since the Boston Tea Party; support a colonial government in Massachusetts free of royal authority until the Intolerable Acts were repealed; urge the colonies to raise militia of their own. There was also a group of radicals known as Committees of Safety who were charged with enforcing the association; they soon became revolutionary spearheads in the towns and counties, creating the first effective union among the colonies and silencing Loyalist opinion.


Eventually the radicals started to sway people to their point of view, but still did not convince the whole.Before adjourning on Oct. 26, 1774, the First Continental Congress summoned a second Congress to assemble in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775, if the king failed to respond favorably to its petition. When the Second Continental Congress convened on the appointed date, the battles of Lexington and Concord had recently taken place in Massachusetts, and militiamen were besieging the British occupying force within Boston.The radicals argument did not triumph until the spring of 1776, when Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense created such massive support for the break with Britain that conservative delegates could no longer resist.representatives such as John Adams , George Washington were elected to form the rebellion armies , and the revolution had begun.



The reason that we are not under British control today is because the radicals believed in Independence. Though at first their ideas were rejected by many, they made the colonies realize that rebellion was the only solution. The radicals were most the most persuasive because of their influential in the history of our country.