The French and Indian War was the North American theater of the Seven Year’s War, a global conflict that began when Great Britain declared war on France in 1756. France and Great Britain had been fighting for years since both countries wanted to expand into the Ohio River Valley. The war ended with a Great Britain victory and the signing of the Treaties of Hubertusburg and Paris in 1763. As specified in the treaties, France lost all claims to Canada, which included the province of Quebec. The people living there, both francophone and anglophone, became British subjects but did not have representation in English Parliament. Britain enacted the Quebec Act of 1774 for the purpose of establishing a government in the province. The thirteen colonies were upset over this because they viewed it as way for Britain to take away their self-elected assemblies. The delegates of the First Continental Congress wrote to the inhabitants of Quebec for the following reasons: (1) to remind the people of Quebec of their rights as English subjects, (2) to warn them of their rights not being granted in the future, (3) to remind them that the thirteen colonies were their friends, not their enemies, and (4) to persuade the people in Quebec to unite with the thirteen colonies to convince Britain that it was acting like a tyrant.