The First Continental Congress formed in response to the British Parliament's passage of the Intolerable Acts.

Tensions had been building between the American colonists and the British government for more than a decade before the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired at the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

As the tea in the Boston Harbor cleared, reaction poured in. “This is the most magnificent Movement of all. There is a Dignity, a Majesty, a Sublimity in this last Effort of the Patriots, that I ...