The Second Continental Congress

 The Second Continental Congress succeeded the first cotinental congress. The congress met in philadelphia for the second time in May 10, 1775 with the purpose of organizing all the efforts of the colonies against England. They took important decisions as organizing all their war efforts wisely. Fiftysix delegates attended to the second congress and they agreed to have Peyton Randolph as president and Charles Thompson as the secretary. They had two new delegates John Hancock from Massachussetts and Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania. Randolph had to get back to The House of Burguesses so John Hancock replaced him. For second time only delegates of twelve of the thirteen colonies got together leaving out Georgia that didn´t send delegates, it was until May 13 that Lyman Hall a colonist of Georgia was accepted in the congress but not in representation of his colony. In July Georgia sent representation to the Continental Congress after holding a congress as a colony. The Continental Congress assumed the responsibility for going to war with England. They formed the Continental Army wich was under George Washington´s command. During this meeting some of the radical delegates wanted to declare independence from England but theu knew that it was too soon. The congress sent "Olive Branch Petition" to the king but he rejected it and sent more troops to America.