<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Meeting place </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> City Hall, New York (later called Federal Hall) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Stamp Act Congress or First Congress of the American Colonies was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation . Parliament had passed the Stamp Act, which required the use of specially stamped paper for legal documents, playing cards, calendars, newspapers and dice for virtually all business in the colonies, and was going into effect on November 1 . </P> <P> The Congress was organized in response to a circular letter distributed by the colonial legislature of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and consisted of delegates from nine of the eighteen British colonies in North America . All nine of the attending delegations were from the Thirteen Colonies that eventually formed the United States of America . Although sentiment was strong in some of the other colonies to participate in the Congress, a number of royal governors took steps to prevent the colonial legislatures from meeting to select delegates . </P>

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