Washington held the British for six months.
The lifting of the ANC ban to the apartheid regime implied that the end of the segregation era was over. the president announced that the party which had been banned for thirty years, along side others had been lifted. He also announced the release of a dozen freedom fighters and the comuting or termination of death sentences.
The Olive Branch Petition begged Parliament to wait for an understanding to be achieved before acting on the colonists resistance.
Citizens can work to support or oppose bills proposed by Congress in a number of ways including calling or speaking to their Congressional representatives, gathering grassroots support to lobby the government, working with lobbyists to lobby the government, or using the media as a tool to influence the process of passing the bill.