Three Weeks After the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Continental

Multiple Choice

Three weeks after the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Continental Congress sent George III

A) the War Act declaring open rebellion.
B) a peace offering accepting Parliament's right to tax the colonies.
C) the Olive Branch Petition, urging the King to negotiate.
D) the Declaration of Independence, creating the "United States of America."
E) a Writ of Renunciation, declaring slavery an evil imposed on the colonies by the Crown.