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Committees of Correspondence
1772
Your Mission
Colonial leaders created Committees of Correspondence to share information and coordinate resistance. All over the colonies, these committees connected patriots who had previously acted alone. Before their formation, each colony largely responded to British actions independently.
Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, November 4, 1772.
In this letter Adams urges Warren to help establish Committees of Correspondence throughout Massachusetts, calling the network essential to saving the colony’s freedoms.
Massachusetts Historical Society. Public domain.
In this letter Adams urges Warren to help establish Committees of Correspondence throughout Massachusetts, calling the network essential to saving the colony’s freedoms.
Massachusetts Historical Society. Public domain.
Your Challenge
Why was communication between colonies so important to the independence movement? What might have happened differently without it?
Record your answer on your notebook paper.
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