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The Conciliatory Resolution was Parliaments response to the colonies petitions regarding the coercive acts. An attempt to reach a peaceful settlement with the colonies, it stated that colonies that contributed a certain amount to the empire (that they could raise which ever way they wished) they would be exempt from the Revenue taxes that had been levied on the colonies.

In any event, the Resolution arrived far to late, reaching the colonies after the shots at Lexington and Concord. But what if similar measures had been passed months before, or the resolution had arrived to the colonies earlier? Would this have been enough to prevent hostilities and repair British-colonial relations, or was it too little, and already too late?
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