Neuropathy/Vascular: The main causes of pins and needles are the following: neuropathy (usually from diabetes or alcohol use), impaired blood flow, or metabolic causes such as changes in calcium or magnesium. Some medications can cause pins and needles-a common medication would be topiramate.
Continental Congress, 1774â1781. The Continental Congress was the governing body by which the American colonial governments coordinated their resistance to British rule during the first two years of the American Revolution.
There were several causes for calling the First Continental Congress. Many of the reasons centered around new, and severe, taxes passed by the English Parliament on Colonial commerce. There was the Tea Act, the Molasses Act, several other tax revenue acts, and then, the ultimate insult, The Stamp Act.rganized in response to the Coercive Acts enacted by Great Britain earlier that year, the major accomplishments of the Congress was to formalize a boycott of the British goods and to set up a Second Continental Congress the next year.