<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> mainly at Pennsylvania State House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from December 1776 to July 1778 various locations, see below </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Footnotes </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> There were about 50 members of the Congress at any given time, but it was the colonies themselves that had voting privileges so there were effectively only 13 seats . </Td> </Tr> <P> The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia between September 5, 1774, and October 26, 1774 . The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence . It eventually adopted the Lee Resolution which established the new country on July 2, 1776, and it agreed to the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 . The Congress acted as the de facto national government of the United States by raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties such as the Olive Branch Petition . </P>

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