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  ﻿O is for Olive Branch Petition  1775  

The Olive Branch Petition was made to gain rights to the colonists and still maintain the loyalty to the British Crown. The Petiton was presented to the king and the king refused to read the Petition and said that the Colonists were rebelling aainst his laws. Rhode island and Providence plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina were the ones that were included in the Petition. []