PART A: According to the author of this article, what resulted from the meeting of the First Continental Congress?
A. a focus on using economic power to force the British government to treat
colonists as if they were English citizens living in Great Britain
B. the belief that the colonies benefited from their ties with Great Britain and
therefore would have to accept their limited political rights
C. a decision that colonists' next step should be to dissolve their local governments
and demand colonial representation in the Parliament of Great Britain
D. an acknowledgement that political and financial remedies had been exhausted
and that the next step would have to be military action