How Did Enforcement Make the Association Effective?

Michael Bolden explains Article 11's committees, public naming, ostracism, and Article 14's sanction against noncompliant colonies.

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On October 20th, 1774, the First Continental Congress passed the Continental Association, a coordinated economic shutdown in response to relentless attacks by the British Empire, including the hated Coercive Acts. It was a four pronged strategy that included a revolutionary, local enforcement mechanism – taking over with self-government from the bottom up.

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