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The Committee of Correspondence was organized by the 13 American colonies to promote communication among the colonies. This organization began the structure for the union of the colonies politically. They also organized the first and second continental congress which were meetings that organized and planned Americans rights against Britian.

The Committee of Correspondence members

__**Before the Committee of Correspondence**__
Before the Committee of Corespondence there was a man named Dabney Carr who changed the colonies. In March of 1773, he was twenty-nine years old he grew up as a great friend with Thomas Jefferson and he sat in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Carr suggested the establishment of a standing Committee of Correspondence and Inquiry. The committee would contact the legislatures of each colony so that they could join Virginia and offer concerted opposition toward British ecroachments. This committee was not illegal but was a tool of protest and would have been frowned on by the British. The Governor of Virigina unknowingly had authorized it. This committee and its intercolonial structure is the first sign of a united nation in America.

**The First Continental Congress**
The First Continental Congress was a meeting created by the committee of correspondence in September 5, 1774 - September 6, 1774 in Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia. The selected president for the First Continental Congress was Patrick Randolph. The meaning of the meeting was to disccus the "Intolerable Acts", and their relationship with Britian, and how to assert their rights with Britian goverment. Their objectives were to make a statement of colonial rights, to identify British parliaments' violation of those rights, and to make a plan that will make the Britians follow their rules. The first idea of this meeting was brought on by Benjamin Franklin a year before but failed because he did not gain much support until the port of Boston was closed. In the First Continental Congress twelve of the thirteen colonies sent deligates. There were 55 deligates in all. The meeting resulted in an agreement to boycot Brithish goods and meet again in May 1775 (Second Continental Congress.)

This is the Carpenters Hall

**The Second Continental Congress**
The Second Continental Congress was a meeting planed by the first continental congress in May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the State House which is now called Independence Hall. It was soon after the first shooting of the Amarican Revolutionary War. The selected president for the Second Continental Congress was John Handcock and the Congress held sixty-five delegates. In the Second Continental Congress they talked about making paper money but that wasn't started till later in the year. The acomplishments of the Second Continental Congress were that they completely broke away from Great Britian and created their own correspondence committee to convey the American interpretation of events of forein powers. They formed a militia to defend America and George Washington was to lead it. They also created The Declaration of Independence which describes the bases of the United States Goverment

**The Committee of Correspondence**
The Committee of Correspondence was the network that radicals of one colony used to communicate with radicals of another. They were used to communicate problems between England and individual colonies and they disolved when the problem or issue was resolved. This network started in 1764 in Boston and ended with the Second Continental Congress in 1774. The political communication was essential to the union of the colonies.

The first committee in Boston was to raise opposition to the Currency Act and other unpopular reforms on the the custom service. New York took the lead when the Stamp Act was imposed. Massachusetts responded by urging other colonies to the Stamp Act Congress. The most important committee was the planing of the First Continental Congress.

The Second Continental Congress addressed this important communication function. It created its own correspondence committee to convey the American side of events with foreign powers. The progress of the first committees to rally support for the American cause and unite the separate colonies was the basis for the beginning of the American government communication.

The First Continental Congress was regarded as a success by the colonies and the delegates. The delegates began to understand the problems and desires of the people from other colonies. Many of the delegates' relationships that were formed would make the task of governing a new nation possible. The Second Continental Congress had many accomplishments but much of the time was spent in regional feuding. Usually Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia opposed Massachusetts, Connecticut Rhode Island and New Hampshire. Further problems were added by military threats.

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