continental congress
1.To make it official, John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, signed the Declaration of Independence.
2.In 1787, inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates of the Continental Congress.
3.American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress approves a Declaration of Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
4.Hancock wrote his name in big, bold letters that day, acting as president of the Second Continental Congress. Do you think he may have practiced writing his signature?
5.Independence Day is on July 4. That is a momentous American date when John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress, signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
6.American politician and Revolutionary leader. He was president of the Continental Congress(1775-1777) and the first to sign the Declaration of Independence. Hancock later served nine terms as governor of Massachusetts(1780-1785 and1787-1793).
