Introduction
Read the markers 1, 2, 3 to learn more about the events surrounding the First Continental Congress.
This 1974 Allyn Cox mural, The First Continental Congress, 1774, depicts an oration by Patrick Henry in Carpenters' Hall. (Architect of the Capitol).
- Taxation: A colonist is shown making a tax payment. Taxation without representation was a major complaint against the royal government
- Delegates: Delegates from all thirteen colonies met in 1774 in Philadelphia to discuss responses to increased British oppression. This convention, the First Continental Congress, formally declared that colonists should have the same rights as Englishmen. The mural depicts an oration by Patrick Henry in Carpenters' Hall.
- Armed occupation: A soldier blocks the path of a woman and child, symbolizing the armed occupation that incensed many colonists.
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