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The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
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Olive Branch Petition
Petition from the 13 Colonies to King George III
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, and signed on July 8, 1775, in a final attempt to avoid war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in America. The Congress had already authorized the invasion of Canada more than…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Continental Congress
Convention of delegates that became the governing body of the United States (1774–1789)
The Continental Congress was a series of legislative bodies, with some executive function, who acted as the Provisional Government for the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain in North America, and the newly declared United States before, during, and after the American…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Thirteen Colonies
British colonies forming the United States
The Thirteen Colonies were the English colonies and later British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America which broke away from the British Crown in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and joined to form the United States of America.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)