Georgia Provincial Congress

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The Georgia Provincial Congress was a revolutionary governing body that represented Georgia’s colonists and coordinated the colony’s break from British rule during the American Revolution.

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Georgia Provincial Congress canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical organization
provincial congress
revolutionary governing body
appliesToJurisdiction Georgia (British colony)
linked to: Colony of Georgia

State of Georgia
linked to: Georgia
basedOn model of other colonial provincial congresses
category American Revolution in Georgia
Defunct legislatures of the United States
Former political institutions in Georgia
Revolutionary governments of the Thirteen Colonies
country Province of Georgia
dissolvedIn late 18th century
followedBy Georgia Council of Safety
Georgia General Assembly
governmentType colonial representative assembly
revolutionary provisional government
hasPoliticalAlignment American independence movement
Patriot
hasPurpose to coordinate Georgia’s break from British rule
to represent Georgia’s colonists
hasRole coordination of resistance to British rule
governing body for Georgia colonists
organizing break from British rule
provisional government
representative assembly
revolutionary legislature
historicalRegion Southern Colonies
legislativeBodyFor Georgia colonists
locatedIn British America
Georgia
Thirteen Colonies
opposedTo British imperial authority in Georgia
royal governor of Georgia
participantIn American Revolutionary War
movement for American independence
partOf American Revolution
Patriot movement
replaced royal government of Georgia
royal governor’s authority in Georgia
significantEvent coordination of Georgia’s separation from British rule
representation of Georgia colonists in revolutionary politics
temporalCoverage American Revolutionary period
usedLanguage English

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John Houstoun memberOf Georgia Provincial Congress
Button Gwinnett legislativeBodyMemberOf Georgia Provincial Congress
Archibald Bulloch memberOf Georgia Provincial Congress
Noble Wimberly Jones memberOf Georgia Provincial Congress