the legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution; they issued the Declaration of Independence and framed Articles of Confederation
a group of politicians who represented the original 13 American COLONIES, and met between 1774 and 1789. They made laws for the COLONIES, and later formed the government of the US. The Continental Congress wrote the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, and its members are often called "The FOUNDING FATHERS ".
the Continental Dividealso the Great Divide the chain of high mountains that goes from north to south in North America. They divide the rivers which flow into the Pacific Ocean from those which flow into the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico.