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 ...

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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....

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