The Olive Branch Petition was a document written by John Dickinson, adopted by the Second Continental Congress of the colonists in America on July 5, 1775, and directed to the British King George III with the purpose to reaffirm colonists allegiance to him, avoid going to war with Britain, to explain why the colonists had been rebelling to the British government and to assert their rights as British citizens, which were rights that the colonists felt had been violated by the Crown over and over again.
