Brief overview courtesy of the Department of State's Office of the Historian.

Great resource on the outcomes and resolutions of the First Continental Congress and a complete list of each state's representatives.

Great overview of the events leading up to the First Continental Congress and some of the results that followed.

In-depth article about the coming together of the First Continental Congress and its outcomes.

Contains 277 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, treaties, and early printed versions of the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

By 1774 the political chasm between the American Colonies and the Empire of Great Britain was at an all time high. In response to the British occupation of Boston and the Coercive Acts, delegates from the American Colonies met in Philadelphia in what would become known as the First Continental Congress.

Ken Owen, Michael Hattem, and Roy Rogers discuss the Continental Congress, including a number of recent popular histories about it, its popular and academic historiography, and various aspects of its importance.