The First Continental Congress:

A. called for a continued boycott of British goods.
B. had all thirteen colonies participate in it.
C. immediately assumed the powers of a central government.
D. named George Washington as the commander in chief of the army.
E. declared that the militiamen who had gathered around Boston were a full army.


Answer: A

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