Committees of Correspondence

Committees of Correspondence

The First C mmittees

The second committee of correspondence was formed in New York to oppose the Stamp act their goal was to get other colonies to send delegates to the Stamp act congress to fight taxation for Britain one year

after the Boston

Committee was made.

Why?

Sources

The First Committee

of Correspondence was made in Boston

Massachusettes in 1764. It's main priority was

The Committees of Correspondence were formed throughout the colonies as means of coordinating action against Great Britain. Many were formed by the legislatures of the respective colonies, others by extra governmental assotiations such as the Sons of Liberty in the in the various colonies. In any case, the members of these organizations representedthe leading men of each colony. It took some time and finally an act as dramatic as the Boston Port Bill, to coordinate the colonies in action against great britain

The sources I used to make my Prezi are from Kenny H, Connor Chandler, Ushistory.com and history.com

to gain opposition to the currency act.

Prezi By:

Cole Lewis

A letter from the committee of correspondence and a photo

What?

Committees of Correspondence were the American colonies' first institution for maintaining communication with one another. They were organized in the decade before the Revolution, when the deteriorating relationship with Great Britain made it increasingly important for the colonies to share ideas and information.