Faith: Americans faced many threats to their faith from the British.
Faith is a spiritual concept as well as a fundamental way to help humans navigate the world. Faith means to have complete trust or confidence in someone or something. Faith helps us believe things we cannot see or touch. When we demonstrate faith, we are also demonstrating conviction.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. Faith is a broad term used in many ways to express a range of different beliefs and attitudes. In its most general sense, though, faith means much the same thing as trust and confidence.
The American founders and leaders held certain beliefs and faith. They had confidence in the idea of a new nation and faith in their ability to establish a new system of government.
The first Americans were faced with threats to their faith, especially after they won their independence from the British in the American Revolution. It was now up to them to decide what the rules were and how to make sure that these rules protected the God-given freedoms and liberties of every person.
The Continental Congress was a series of legislative bodies, with some executive function, for thirteen of Britain’s colonies in North America, and the newly declared United States just before, during, and after the American Revolutionary War.
Beginning in 1774, the Continental Congress served as the governing body for the colonies. Try and recall from earlier lessons that the Continental Congress put forward the Declaration of Independence and was in charge of overseeing the war effort against the British. This was a huge step in enacting the first effective central government of the United States.
