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Olive Branch Petition
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Was adopted by the Continental Congress in 1775 in an attempt to a full-blown war with Great Britain. It affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflicts.
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Prohibitory Act
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Was passed as a measure of retaliation by Great Britain against the general rebellion then going on in her American colonies, which became known as the American Revolutionary War.
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Common Sense
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Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, during the American Revolution. Iy also presented the American colonists with a powerful argument for independence from British rule at a time when the question of independence was still undecided.
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Declaration of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson
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