Write the who, what, & why of the First and Second Continental Congress.

The Continental Congress was a government of the Thirteen American colonies and respectively the United States. It was composed of delegates from the colonies in order to discuss measures imposed by the British government.

The First Continental Congress was founded in 1774. Delegates from each of the Thirteen colonies (except Georgia) attended the First Continental Congress which was organized as free debate, in order to organize resistance movement to British Parliament Coercive Acts. The most important figures of the First Continental Congress were John Adams (Massachusetts), George Washington (Virginia) and Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court John Hay. During the Congress, the colonies confirmed its loyalty to the British, but without accepting the British taxation.

The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of the delegates from the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolutionary War in 1775, shortly after the battles of Lexington and Concord. The Second Continental Congress was composed of the same delegates as the first one, and it also included the Founding Fathers. It financed the colonial war by states' contribution to men, supplies, and funds.