What The Committees of Correspondence?

Answer 1

The committees of correspondence were bodies organized by the local colonial leaders of the Thirteen Colonies before and during the American Revolution for the purposes of coordinating written communication between separate cities and colonies. These served an important role in the Revolution, by disseminating the colonial interpretation of British actions between the colonies and to foreign governments. The committees of correspondence rallied opposition on common causes and established plans for collective action, and so the group of committees was the beginning of what later became a formal political union among the colonies.

As news during this period was typically spread in hand-written letters to be carried by couriers on horseback or aboard ships, the committees were responsible for ensuring that this news accurately reflected the views of their parent governmental body on a particular issue, and was dispatched to the proper groups. Many correspondents were also members of the colonial legislative assemblies, and were active in the secret Sons of Liberty organizations.

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On March 17, 1772 an organization called the committee of correspondence was formed by Samuel Adams to protest against the British and it helped the American Revolution form. The committee talked about problems they had with the British and how they could confront these problems. Samuel Adams asked other cities and towns to do the same. The committees wrote letters to one another to tell how they were protesting in each towns and city. The letters were delivered on horseback between towns. The king banned these committee but they kept on sending letters anyway.

Committees of correspondence is the shadow of the governments is organized by the Patriot leaders. This is in the Thirteen Colonies.