The Continental Association aimed to enforce a boycott throughout what area?

• A. The Empire
• B. The Colony of Massachusetts
• C. Britain itself
• D. France and Spain

Answer: (D)

The idea being tested is coordinated economic resistance across the colonies. The Continental Association was formed by the First Continental Congress in 1774 to enforce a nonimportation and nonconsumption agreement on British goods throughout all thirteen American colonies. Local committees of observation would enforce the boycott, aiming to pressure Britain to repeal the Coercive Acts by disrupting colonial trade with Britain. This was not a boycott of Britain itself, nor a general European affair, and it wasn’t limited to a single colony. France and Spain were unrelated to this colonial boycott, which is why the area covered was the American colonies.