What is a confederation? what was the purpose of the new england confederation? in your own words, explain what "taxation without representation" means. what major events led to the calling for the first continental congress? compare the goals of the first and second continental congress. what challenges did each face?

A confederation is a union of states which each have their own sovereignty over their own territories, but form a common policy when dealing with foreign countries. For example, the articles of confederation gave states all the power they wanted, but they acted together against foreign enemies such as Britain or anyone else who would fight them.

The purpose of the New England Confederation was to solve disputes between the colonies and to build policies regarding dealing with Native Americans. It was formed after wars between two tribes and included things like ending indentured servitude or dealing with rogue fugitives or similar things.

Taxation without representation means that the colonies were getting taxed without having any representatives in the British parliament who would fight for the rights of the colonists. They decided to not pay taxes until they got their own representative from the colonies in the British parliament who could fight for the well-being of the colonies.

The first continental congress was created after the introduction of the intolerable acts. These acts, also known as the coercive acts, were a way of punishing the colonists for the events that happened during the Boston tea party. They decided to petition the king and ignore British traders until the coercive acts ended.

The goals of the first continental congress was to end the coercive acts. They decided to do two things, one is to ignore any trading with British traders because they believed that the parliament had no rights to regulate trade in the colonies, and their second goal was to petition the king to cancel the coercive acts. The second congress had to be called since the king denied the petition. 

The goals of the second continental congress was to see how to deal with the King and how to resolve the problems caused by the British troops. What actually happened was that they all became involved in writing the Declaration of Independence which marked the official beginning of the war for liberation of the states.

The challenges that they faced came from lack of support. The common people didn't know what was going on so or didn't care. The high ranked people were often loyalists who didn't want the colonies to become independent. They also lacked international support without which they would not be able to gain their independence. There were many other challenges as well.