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Committees of Correspondence were the American colonies' first institution [organization] for maintaining communication with one another. They were organized in the decade before the Revolution, when the deteriorating [worsening] relationship with Great Britain made it increasingly important for the colonies to share ideas and information. In 1764, Boston formed the earliest Committee of Correspondence, writing to other colonies to encourage united opposition to Britain's recent stiffening [increasing the strictness] of customs [tax] 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. This correspondence led to the holding of the Stamp Act Congress in New York City. Nine of the colonies sent representatives, but no permanent intercolonial [spanning across colonies] structure was established. In 1772, a new Boston Committee of Correspondence was organized, this time to communicate with all the towns in the province, as well as with "the World," about the recent announcement that Massachusetts' governor and judges would hereafter be paid by--and accountable to--the Crown [the King of England] rather than the colonial legislature. More than half of Massachusetts’ 260 towns formed committees and replied to Boston's communications.
In March 1773, the Virginia House of Burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a standing committee for intercolonial correspondence. Within a year, nearly all had joined the network, and more committees were formed at the town and county levels. The exchanges that followed helped build a sense of solidarity [unity], as common grievances [complaints] were discussed and common responses agreed upon. When the First Continental Congress was held in September 1774, it represented the logical evolution [development] of the intercolonial communication that had begun with the Committees of Correspondence.

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1. Explain how the Boston Massacre inspired Sam Adams to form the first Committee of Correspondence in Boston.

2. What do you believe were 2 risks of being involved in a Committee of Correspondence?

3. What do you believe were 2 benefits of being involved in a Committee of Correspondence?

4. Our modern day Constitution gives US citizens the right to peacefully protest. How do you think the Committees of Correspondence inspired the protection of that right?

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