5 Sept 1774 Jahr - QUEBEC ACT PASSED; FIRST CONTINENTAL CONFERENCE

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The Quebec act was defined as an act for making more effective provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec in North America. The Act enlarged the boundaries of the province of quebec to include Labrador, Ile d'Anticosti and Iles de la Madeleine on the east, and the Aboriginal territory south of the Great Lakes between the Mississippi and Ohio rivers on the west. According to Wikipedia, The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was called in response to the Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament, which the British referred to as the Coercive Acts.