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Upon the ratification of the Articles, the Continental Congress was succeeded by the first legislative government of the United States:
Initially formed to coordinate a common American response to the Intolerable Acts , the Continental Congress rapidly became the governing body of a new nation as the dispute with the British Government escalated into the American Revolutionary War . Once the war ended, the members of the Congress served as the governing body of the United States of America, reorganized as a new national legislature. NOTABLE DATES
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