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