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Continental Congress
The purpose of the First Continental Congress was to repeal Britain's taxes and overturn any other harsh measures. to make a list of the colonists' rights as englishmen NOVANET
Ultimately it helped create the US, so the then colonists in general benefited.
The First Continental Congress was called on to try and establish what American rights were, the proper tactics for resisting the Coercive (the Intolerable) Acts, and what the limits on Parliament's power should be.