There are 27 grievances in total if I remember correctly. Some of them include: the unfair taxes on goods, the British Parliament passed laws that were deemed unfair, the colonists had no say in the Parliament, the colonists were not allowed to sell any goods to any other country other than Britain.
The Olive Branch petition, was an attempt to give colonists some rights while staying loyal to the British crown.
<span>Many Americans believed that their economy was being purposefully harmed by British action. Added to this they felt that the British threatened their expansion into the west as forts on US land attempted to support and be at peace with Native Americans. A final issue was impressment, where the British forced young American sailors into their own royal navy.</span>
Rights that they thought they had but not really
According to a British army doctor, a cotton plantation should have one slave per two acres, coffee should have two slaves per three acres, and sugar plantations (the worst of the worst) should have one slave per acre
