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Committees of correspondence
Committees of correspondence
It form on the year 1772.
It form on the year 1772.
the committees of correspondence formed are came first
The ones connected directly to the First Continental Congress (September 1774) and the Revolutionary War (April 1775) were formed in 1772 and 1773. Earlier committees had been formed in response to the Stamp Act in 1764.
At first in Boston (1772) and in other American colonies by 1774.
Samuel Adams, along with Dr. Joseph Warren, formed one of the earliest committees in the years immediately preceding the Revolutionary War. They began in Boston in 1772.
the committees of correspondence
To unify the colonies together.
The committees of correspondence was a group of representatives from each of the thirteen colonies that was created to help the colonies keep in contact. from each meeting they would let the people of their colony know what was going on.
Several prominent patriots were on the committees. One of the first was formed in 1772 by Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren. Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Harrison, and Thomas Johnson were involved as well. Earlier informal committees had appeared following the Stamp Act in 1764. But the most notable of the committees of correspondence were bodies organized by the local governments of the Thirteen Colonies before and during the American Revolution, for the purposes of sharing information between colonies. These served an important role in the Revolution, disseminating the colonial interpretation of British actions, and the actions taken in response. They formed the nucleus of independent colonial legislatures.