A week later Congress agreed to an "Association," an instrument for regulating, by preventing, trade with the English.

Having provided for the assembling of a second Congress, the first adjourned.
As a symbol, the First Congress has an integral importance in the growth of American Independence.

It marked the first time that the American Colonies had acted together for their collective interests.
It served notice on King George and Lord North that it repudiated the claims of the British Parliament to govern the Colonies.

It implied that it would repel by force every attempt of the British to exercise an authority which the Colonists refused to recognize.

In a very real sense the Congress thus delivered an ultimatum.