Massachusetts and the Québec Act

In 17 74, 56 men representing 12 colonies met in carpenter's hall in philadelphia and convened the first continental congress. The only colony not to send a delegation was georgia, who would have gladly accepted all the troops boston was trying to get rid of. But luckily for them, it quickly became clear that the radicals out numbered the conservatives. And the result of this meeting was the suffolk resolves, which unequivocally moved the colony towards war beyond the obvious economic boycots.