Petition to the King (1774)
Encyclopedia
The Petition to the King was a petition
sent to George III of Great Britain by the First Continental Congress
. The petition expressed loyalty to the king and hoped for redress of grievances relating to the Intolerable Acts
and other issues that helped foment the American Revolution
.
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Petition
A petition is a request to do something, most commonly addressed to a government official or public entity. Petitions to a deity are a form of prayer....
sent to George III of Great Britain by the First Continental Congress
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts by the...
. The petition expressed loyalty to the king and hoped for redress of grievances relating to the Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts or the Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America...
and other issues that helped foment the American Revolution
American Revolution
The American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America...
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Further reading
- Wolf, Edwin. "The Authorship of the 1774 Address to the King Restudied". The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Apr., 1965), pp. 190-224. Available on JSTOR.
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