First
Continental Congress
Continental Congress
second continental congress
end all trade with Britain
Delegates voted to bon ALL trade with England until the Intolerable Acts were repealed. They also called for all of the colonies to begin training troops for colonial milias.
to call for the formation of colonial militias.
independence
independence
The Second Continental Congress
the first continental congress
It voted in favor of a boycott of British trade, until the Intolerable Acts were repealed. These were laws punishing the colonies, with taxes and fines, in part as a response to the Boston Tea Party.-But the First Continental Congress also voted in favor of forming a second continental congress, to come after it, to organize the colonies to defend themselves against the British government, which was essentially the same sort of distant, umbrella power that the Federal government is in the United States, today.
they were free and independent