The British were taxing everything much too high. Not sure about trade.
Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress produced the Declaration of Independence.
The First Congress started a boycott of British goods and a Second Continental Congress. The Second Continental Congress created the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation.
According to the U.S. Constitution, Congress is to regulate intrastate commerce by lowering barriers to free trade among the several states. Congress is restricted to levying only excise taxes and apportioned direct taxes to the states, and is strictly barred from levying unapportion direct tax on the People. Congress is the only body that can declare war and it is strictly limited in that it may only coin money from gold and silver, no fiat currency is allowed.
regulate trade set up army raise money with taxes force states to obey its laws
Continental Congress
Continental Congress
First
The outcome of the First Continental Congress was a declaration that would state the rights of the colonists and halt the trade with Britain.
The outcome of the First Continental Congress was a declaration that would state the rights of the colonists and halt the trade with Britain.
Taxes are never popular and taxation was one of the complaints against the British that led to the revolution. Consequently the new revolutionary government found it very hard to levy and collect taxes. The Continental Congress had to rely on the individual states to collect revenue and pass it along to the central government. The war disrupted the economy and trade with Europe, so money was hard for individuals to come by.
It was not an act, it was at the meeting for the First Continental Congress.
- The first Continental Congress in 1774 resolved to organize an economic boycott of British trade. -Realization that drastic changes must be made in their relationship with England.
end all trade with Britain
The first continental congress
The meeting on September 6, 1774, where the Suffolk Resolves were proposed to strike the British economy was the FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.
The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general wellfare of the united states.