The First Continental Congress... 

A. was summoned by Patriot leaders to protest the Coercive Acts in 1774. 
B. united representatives from all the British colonies of North America for the first time. 
C. failed to enact a declaration of independence drafted by John Adams but accepted Joseph Galloway's more moderate Plan of Union. 
D. failed to pass a declaration of rights and grievances because it was judged too mild.