What prompted American colonists to convene the Continental Congress? A. Disloyal American colonists were being condemned without trial,
B. Colonial political leaders were frustrated with the lack of colonial
representation in Parliament,
C. The Congress had been tasked with choosing a form of
government for the colonies,
D. The public was protesting against British violations of their rights.

D. The public was protesting against British violations of their rights.

Explanation:

What prompted American colonists to convene the Continental Congress is that "the public was protesting against British violations of their rights."

The American colonists made their first continental congress when the British Parliament issued the Coercive Acts in 1774, which was known as the Intolerable Acts among the American colonists.

The American colonists felt that these Acts was a violation of some of their basic rights. Hence, the American colonists United through the continental congress to go against these Acts

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

explanation:

most people now work in jobs where they do one  kind  of work; they are carpenters, bankers, cooks, mechanics, and so forth. likewise, most  businesses produce  only certainkinds  of  goods  or  services, such as cars, tacos, or gardening  services. this feature of  production  is known as specialization.