Congress adopted the Olive Branch Petition asking Parliament not to break from the colonies until a compromise could be worked out. The correct option among all the options given in the question is the first option. The main reason behind such a petition was that the King did not consider any government bodies in the colonies to be legitimate. There was lack of sincerity among the people as well.
The main cause of the civil war and strife in Sri Lanka is their ethnic composition: Tamils in the north of the Island, who want independence and Sinhala in the South who want the country to remain united.
There is also a religious difference: the Tamils are predominantly Hindu and the Sinhalese are Buddhist.
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The time period after the war of 1812 which saw only one political party was called the Era of Good Feelings.