True History - Veritas Card #18 (Red Card) - The First Continental Congress Seeks Peace With Britain

The First Continental Congress Seeks Peace with Britain - 1774

  We recently learned about how Parliament acted unjustly to the new colonies, and as a result of these injustices, the colonies agreed to meet in a Continental Congress. So, all the colonies except Georgia, sent delegates to meet in Philadelphia in 1774. A draft was made of the grievances and a Declaration of Rights  asking King George to help against Parliament. The colonies would no longer buy British goods unless given their English rights. Britain depended heavily on the colonies as a market, and Congress recognized this as well. They were ready to make use of their economic power.
   The First Continental Congress enforced the boycott by telling the colonies not to buy English goods, nor to sell any goods to Britain. They established an effective 'Association' that made sure the colonists obeyed the rules. Tenseness was setting in, and people were well aware that, even though they wanted peace, fighting was going to be eventually inevitable. Volunteer armies sprung up everywhere.