The First Continental Congress approves the Articles of Association, pledging to cease trade with Great Britain or Ireland until the Intolerable Acts and the Quebec Act are repealed.  Articles 1, 2, 3, 11, 12 and 14 of which state,

• [W]e will not import, into British America, from Great-Britain … any goods, wares, or merchandise whatsoever. ….
• We … will wholly discontinue the slave trade … nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it.
• [W]e will not purchase … any tea, imported on account of the East-India company. ….
• That a committee [of correspondence] be chosen in every county … whose business it shall be attentively to observe the conduct of all persons touching this association. …
• That the committee of correspondence, in the respective colonies, do frequently inspect the entries of their customhouses. …
• And we do further agree and resolve that we will have no trade … with any colony or province, in North-America, which shall not accede to, or which shall hereafter violate this association. …

       [updated 11/2/2024]