EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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how King George III was a great ruler
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info and news about what their colonies were doing to resist the British and their unfair policies
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directions on how to create a printing press
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laws and documents of how the colonies became the United States
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Detailed explanation-1: -The committees of correspondence functioned mainly as a means of spreading news and information about the Patriot cause and mobilizing opposition to British policies in cities, towns and rural communities throughout the colonies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Towns, counties, and colonies from Nova Scotia to Georgia had their own committees of correspondence. Men on these committees wrote to each other to express ideas, to confirm mutual assistance, and to debate and coordinate resistance to British imperial policy.
Detailed explanation-3: -In March 1773 the Virginia House of Burgesses organized legislative standing committees for intercolonial correspondence, with Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry among their 11 members. By the end of 1773, eight other American colonies had followed Virginia’s example.