1. 1  any of a diverse group of eukaryotes, of the kingdom Protista, that are primarily unicellular, existing singly or aggregating into colonies, are usually nonphotosynthetic, and are often classified further into phyla according to their capacity for and means of motility, as by pseudopods, flagella, or cilia.
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.y the time the Second Continental Congress met, the American Revolutionary War had already started with the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The Congress was to take charge of the war effort. For the first few months of the struggle, the Patriots had carried on their struggle in an ad-hoc and uncoordinated manner.
The first Continental Congress had established the beginnings of a united America. The Second Continental Congress first met on May 10, 1775, in the State House in Philadelphiâ¦a, Pennsylvania (now Independence Hall). Its aim was to coordinate the war afforts of the colonies. But it also had to answer the question of whether the colonies would actually break free of British rule.