Question

Answer all questions given under each heading

Second Continental Congress

(a) When did the Second Continental Congress meet?

(b) Who were the prominent members of the Congress?

(c) What did they do?

(d) Under whose command it was placed?

Answer 1

(a) The Second Continental Congress met on 10th May 1775 at Philadelphia.

(b) John Adams, Sam Adams, Richard Henry Lee and Thomas Jefferson were the prominent members of the Congress.

(c) They organized the army gathered around Boston as the Continental Army.

(d) They placed it under the command of George Washington.