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QuizMultiple Choice

The Declaration of Independence

Question 10 • SD-Early US History A

In 1774, the First Continental Congress suggested that colonists boycott British goods to protest

Answer
A
the Stamp Act.
B
elections in England.
C
treatment of British representatives.
D
the Intolerable Acts.

Explanation

The First Continental Congress met in 1774 in response to Parliament’s Coercive Acts, which colonists called the Intolerable Acts. It urged a boycott of British imports as a way to pressure Britain to repeal them. The Stamp Act had been repealed years earlier, in 1766.

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