Why did the Continental Congress first meet?
A. Beginning in 1763, the British government changed its policy from passive to direct control of its colonies. Britain was staggering under debt incurred in the French and Indian War. The mother country started levying taxes and duties, which colonists took as infringements on their rights as Englishmen. The Colonies elected delegates to Congress in 1774 to discuss what they considered British tyranny, particularly taxation without representation in the British Parliament.
