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Businesses made more goods than people had the money to buy.
The Continental Congress created the Continental Association, an agreement to boycott British goods. Additionally, it was decided that if the Coercive Acts were not reversed after a year, goods were to stop being exported to Great Britain as well.
Many of pullman strike workers joined the American railway, which supported their strike by launching a boycoty in which ARU members refused to run trains containing pullman cars