<P> In the end, the voices of compromise carried the day . Rather than calling for independence, the First Continental Congress passed and signed the Continental Association in its Declaration and Resolves, which called for a boycott of British goods to take effect in December 1774 . It requested that local Committees of Safety enforce the boycott and regulate local prices for goods . These resolutions adopted by the Congress did not endorse any legal power of Parliament to regulate trade, but consented, nonetheless, to the operation of acts for that purpose . Furthermore, they did not repudiate control by the royal prerogative, which was explicitly acknowledged in the Petition to the King a few days later . </P> <P> The Congress had two primary accomplishments . The first was a compact among the Colonies to boycott British goods beginning on December 1, 1774 . The West Indies were threatened with a boycott unless the islands agreed to non-importation of British goods . Imports from Britain dropped by 97 percent in 1775, compared with the previous year . Committees of observation and inspection were to be formed in each Colony to ensure compliance with the boycott . All of the Colonial Houses of Assembly approved the proceedings of the Congress, with the exception of New York . </P> <P> If the Intolerable Acts were not repealed, the Colonies would also cease exports to Britain after September 10, 1775 . The boycott was successfully implemented, but its potential for altering British colonial policy was cut off by the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War . </P> <P> The second accomplishment of the Congress was to provide for a Second Continental Congress to meet on May 10, 1775 . In addition to the Colonies which had sent delegates to the First Continental Congress, the Congress resolved on October 21, 1774, to send letters of invitation to Quebec, Saint John's Island (now Prince Edward Island), Nova Scotia, Georgia, East Florida, and West Florida . However, letters appear to have been sent only to Quebec (three letters in all). None of these other colonies sent delegates to the opening of the Second Congress, though a delegation from Georgia arrived the following July . </P>

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