Summarize the purpose of the First Continental Congress.

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

How might an economic depression impact people’s daily lives?

Were the common crimes brought before the suffolk county court? what were the common sentences for convictions what? why type of punishment did the court prefer to inflict?