The First Continental Congress drew up a statement known as the Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, also known as the Declaration of Colonial Rights, or the Declaration of Rights in 1774. It was similar to the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, but that document was drafted by a different group earlier, in 1765.
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The Declaration of Independence is the document that contains the long list of grievances against the king of England. Some of the grieves were that the king made it so the colonies had no representation in Parliament and that he told his army to ignore the laws and government that the colonist had established.
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Dr. James Blundell is credited as being the pioneer of blood plasma transfusions and the concept and organization of blood banks. The first world war hurried along the development of blood banks and aided in the improvements of the transfusion method.
The first Women's Rights Convention was held on July 19 and 20, 1848, at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York. Three hundred men and women attended the convention. As the convention drew to a close, 68 women and 32 men signed the Declaration of Sentiments, the first step in attaining the civil, social, political, and religious rights of women.