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Why was the Continental Congress convened?

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Indignation against England's colonial policy reached fever pitch in the colonies after the passage (1774) of the Intolerable Acts , and the Sons of Liberty and the committees of correspondence promoted the idea of an intercolonial assembly similar to the one held (1765) at the time of the Stamp Act .

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