<span>John Dickinson drafted the Olive Branch Petition, which was adopted by the Second Continental Congress
on July 5 and submitted to King George on July 8, 1775. It was an
attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their
loyalty to the British crown.</span>
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there are no options attached, we can say the following.
The preparations that the colonists performed prior to the battle of Bunker Hill were the following.
The colonists were very aware of the imminent attack of the English troops. So Colonel William Prescott prepared the colonists to defend the hills that surrounded the town. At the very top of Beed Hill, almost 1000 colonists decided to build some walls and fortifications to impede the march of the British soldiers that came from the city of Boston.
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on Jule 17, 1775, and although the British won the Battle, they had many casualties against an inexéienced army And this represented a moral victory that gave confidence to the colonists.
A law was passed in 1890 called the Sherman Act under Harrison presidency, yet it did not lead to the breaking up of cartels and monopolies. The Gilded Age(1877-1900) was followed by the Progressive Era which saw some effort to regulate big business practices despite the fact that some scholars for instance contest this vision and claim that the regulation put forward by Theodore Roosevelt actually strengthened cartels.
