1. how is the "south" defined in her article?
2. list the ideas, the agricultural, mineral, and manufactured products and the inventions that she associates with "southernization."
3. what places were the ideas, agriculture, minerals, and manufactured products associated with.
4. what were the major contributions of indians, malays, chinese, and arabs to hemispheric development?
5. according shaffer, what role did the arabs and mongols play in the spread of "southernization"?
6. why does she say that northwestern europeans were most fully participating in the "southernization" process only after they acquired tropical colonies?
7. do you agree with her thesis? why or why not?

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.

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after the senate and the house passed different bills and deadlock threatened, a compromise bill was worked out with the following provisions: (1) missouri was admitted as a slave state and maine (formerly part of massachusetts).

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