British Response to "Petition to the King", 1774
British political cartoon show Bostonians held captive in a cage suspended from the "Liberty Tree." British sailors feed them fish from a basket labeled "To - from the Committee of - " in return for a bundle of papers labeled "Promises". The paper in the hand of one jailed Bostonian says "They tried with the Lord in their Troubl & he saved them out of their Distress. CVIL 13." Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, November 19, 1774. The Petition to the King was a petition sent to King George III by the First Continental Congress in 1774, calling for repeal of the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea party. The acts took away Massachusetts' self-government and historic rights, triggering outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies. They were key developments in the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775.
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