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Abolition of slavery in the various states of the US over time: Parliament sought to punish Massachusetts colonists for their role in the Boston Tea Party in 1774 by passing the Coersive Acts which Washington referred to as "an Invasion of our Rights and Privileges". He said Americans must not submit to acts of tyranny since "custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway". That July he and George Mason drafted a list of resolutions for the Fairfax County committee which Washington chaired and the committee adopted the Fairfax Resolves calling for a Continental Congress. On August 1 Washington attended the First Virginia Convention where he was selected as a delegate to the First Continental Congress as tensions rose in 1774 he assisted in the training of county militias in Virginia and organized enforcement of the Continental Association boycott of British goods instituted by the Congress. . ! Gunning Bedford Jr. Delaware 1 Yes, Ex-slave Frederick Douglass opposed the war and was dismayed by the weakness of the anti-war movement "The determination of our slave holding president and the probability of his success in wringing from the people men and money to carry it on is made evident by the puny opposition arrayed against him None seem willing to take their stand for peace at all risks."; The main result of congressional activity is the creation of laws, most of which are contained in the United States Code arranged by subject matter alphabetically under fifty title headings to present the laws "in a concise and usable form".

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