How did Britain respond to America’s attempts at reconciliation in 1775? Check all of the boxes that apply.

Britain rejected the Olive Branch Petition, which was the colonists’ final major appeal for reconciliation. Parliament also passed the Prohibitory Act, which treated the colonies as being in rebellion and barred trade with them, including by closing American ports to overseas trade. Britain did not set all enslaved people free; that was not a general response to the petition.

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