Part A According to the author of this article, what resulted from the meeting of the First Continental Congress? A a focus on using economic power to force the British government to treat colonists as if they were English citizens living in Great Britain B the belief that the colonies benefited from their ties with Great Britain and therefore would have to accept their limited political rights C a decision that colonists’ next step should be to dissolve their local governments and demand colonial representation in the Parliament of Great Britain D an acknowledgment that political and financial remedies had been exhausted and that the next step would have to be military action