40. The Stamp Act crisis brought the colonies to the brink of war with the British, but the crisis subsided largely becausea. Colonial leaders were unable to organize significant protestsb. England could not afford to fight another costly war in Americac. British merchants, hurt by the colonial boycott, forced Parliament to repeal the actd. The colonies were militarily too powerful for Britain to fighte. The colonial petitions persuaded the British government to rethink its constitutional position

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