It would damage trade relations between the countries
<span>D. The South and the Southwest</span>
It was "a. South Carolina" that defeated the cooperationist argument that the South should act as a unit, since it was South Carolina that was the first to officially secede from the Union.
In May 1775, with Redcoats once again storming Boston, the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. The questions were different this time. First and foremost, how would the colonist meet the military threat of the British. It was agreed that a Continental Army would be created