<span>The Continental Association is an agreement to boycott all British imports and to stop exporting to Britain and its colonies. This immediate ban took effect on December 1, 1774. The First Continental Congress created this system in the hopes of pressuring Great Britain into repealing the Intolerable Acts which were passed by the British Parliamentary. </span>
President Andrew Johnson believed that the rights of the Emancipation Proclamation and its guarantees were enough to secure the civil rights of the African-Americans.
Because of that President Johnson believed that a new bill was completely unnecessary. But this was not really an isolated case. The Freedman's Bureau was facing position left and right, in their mission which included providing financial help, food and shelter to freed African-Americans and poor whites as well as resettling former slaves on the confiscated land.
