Which Congress formed the Continental Association?

Which Congress formed the Continental Association?

• A. The First Continental Congress
• B. The Second Continental Congress
• C. The British Parliament
• D. The Continental Assembly

Answer: (A)

The Continental Association was created by the First Continental Congress in 1774 to coordinate a united colonial boycott of British goods in response to the Coercive Acts. This move shows the colonies shifting from local protests to a coordinated, continent-wide effort aimed at pressuring Britain to redress grievances. The Association organized nonimportation, nonconsumption, and later nonexportation, with committees of observation to enforce the boycott across most colonies, signaling growing colonial unity. The Second Continental Congress organized after fighting began and focused on wartime governance and military matters, not on forming this kind of trade boycott. The British Parliament is not a colonial American body, and the term Continental Assembly isn’t the name of the body that created the Association.

The Continental Association was created by the First Continental Congress in 1774 to coordinate a united colonial boycott of British goods in response to the Coercive Acts. This move shows the colonies shifting from local protests to a coordinated, continent-wide effort aimed at pressuring Britain to redress grievances. The Association organized nonimportation, nonconsumption, and later nonexportation, with committees of observation to enforce the boycott across most colonies, signaling growing colonial unity.

The Second Continental Congress organized after fighting began and focused on wartime governance and military matters, not on forming this kind of trade boycott. The British Parliament is not a colonial American body, and the term Continental Assembly isn’t the name of the body that created the Association.