John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress ... managed to avoid a retaliatory war with France through diplomacy. Adams was the first president to take up ...

The First Continental Congress formed in response to the British Parliament's passage of the Intolerable Acts (called the Coercive Acts in England), which aimed to punish Massachusetts for the ...

The Declaration's second paragraph ... On July 4, only John Hancock, the president of the Continental Congress, and Charles Thomson, the secretary, signed the Declaration. Then it went to the ...