Continental Congress

Question 0

Declaration of Rights and Grievances

Answer 0

The Declaration of Rights raised fourteen points of colonial protest but was not directed exclusively at the Stamp Act 1765, which required that documents, newspapers, and playing cards be printed on special stamped and taxed paper

Question 1

Suffolk Resolves

Answer 1

The declaration rejected the Massachusetts Government Act and resolved on a boycott of imported goods from Britain unless the Intolerable Acts were repealed

Question 2

Formed the Association

Answer 2

was a system created by the First Continental Congress in 1774 for implementing a trade boycott with Great Britain

Question 3

Formed the Committee of Safety

Answer 3

Committees of Safety formed in 1774 to keep watch on the distrusted royal government