After the last French and Indian War(1754-63) the British gained Canada and the Missisippi area as new territories. ... Parliament and Greenville, the prime minister, increasingly felt the colonies should at least pay a part of their own protection. ... Instead of offering it too Parliament rightaway he made the colonies a proposal. ... Parliament accepted the Stamp Act in january 1765. ... But Parliament misjudged the sentiments in the American colonies as well as its own power. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After the last French and Indian war (1754-1763) the British gained Canada and the Mississippi area as new territories. ... Instead of offering it too Parliament right away he made the colonies a proposal. ... Parliament accepted the Stamp Act in January 1765. ... But Parliament misjudged the sentiments in the American colonies as well as its own power. ... The principle issue that divided the twenty-seven delegates was whether to modify the rebellious tone of their denial of Parliament's authority to tax; this could be done by acknowledging explicitly what authority Parliament ...

• Word Count: 1179
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An all-out independent war spreading over the entire North American Continent seemed predictable because the habitants, early French settlers in Canada, were from Britain's archenemy France; nevertheless, the Province of Quebec did not rise up against Britain. ... Both the First and Second Continental Congresses addressed several "letters to the inhabitants of Canada" which urged the habitants to go against the British regime by organizing local assemblies and sending delegates to the Continental Congresses. ... "Delenda est Canada", which meant "Canada must be de...

• Word Count: 2752
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A few loud, rebel-rousing colonists to begin to rally support for rebellion by holding pro-war rallies and publishing pro-war pamphlets, such as Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, which he states, "As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right, to support the Parliament in what he calls Theirs, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the...

• Word Count: 1791
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When France ceded Canada and the Ohio River Valley to Great Britain, the British announced the Proclamation of 1763, "to prevent the colonists from rushing into territories vacated by the French and provoking conflict with the Indians",[Dig141]. ... In a letter from a Boston merchant named John Andrews to his brother in Philadelphia it says, "I sincerely believe they [the British Parliament] intend to carry out their threats, which are to make the town a desolate wilderness and the grass to grow in our streets....

• Word Count: 1821
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A few loud, rebel-rousing colonists to begin to rally support for rebellion by holding pro-war rallies and publishing pro-war pamphlets, such as Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, which he states, "As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right, to support the Parliament in what he calls Theirs, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the...

• Word Count: 1702
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate