USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -What the Colonists say: “He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.” In January 1768, the Massachusetts assembly wrote a petition to the other colonies stating that Great Britain had no right to tax the colonies without their consent.

Detailed explanation-2: -We ask but for peace, liberty, and safety. We wish not a diminution of the prerogative, nor do we solicit the grant of any new right in our favor. Your royal authority over us and our connection with Great Britain we shall always carefully and zealously endeavor to support and maintain.

Detailed explanation-3: -Early in 1776, King George consented to the hiring of thousands of Hessian mercenaries to assist the British troops already in America in crushing the rebellion. The Revolutionary War lasted nearly eight years, largely because King George refused to surrender the colonies.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Petition to the King was a petition sent to King George III by the First Continental Congress in 1774, calling for the repeal of the Intolerable Acts. The King’s rejection of the Petition, was one of the causes of the later United States Declaration of Independence and American Revolutionary War.

Detailed explanation-5: -King George III interfered with that process by rejecting legislation proposed by the colonies, dissolving colonial bodies of representation, replacing colonial governments with his appointed ministers, and interfering with the naturalization of citizens in new regions.