Split and merge into it. Answered by The Community. Making the world better, one answer at a time. The Continental Association was created by the First Continental Congress in response to the passage of the Coercive (or Intolerable) Acts by the British government over the American colonies.he second group of delegates from the colonies was far from  unified, but represented the first attempt at a republican  government for the colonies.    The purpose … of the Second Continental Congress was for the making  of the Declaration of Independence. + 63 others found this useful.