Examples of Committees of Correspondence in the following topics:
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- Groups such as these were absorbed into the greater Sons of Liberty organization, a political group made up of American patriots formed to protect the rights of the colonists from the usurpations of the British government after 1766.
- Political groups such as the Sons of Liberty evolved into groups such as The Committees of Correspondence: shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.
- By November 6, a committee was set up in New York to correspond with other colonies.
- January bore witness to a correspondence link between Boston and New York City, and by March, Providence had initiated connections with New York, New Hampshire, and Newport, Rhode Island.
- In return, the British authorities attempted to denigrate the Sons of Liberty by referring to them as the "Sons of Violence" or the "Sons of Iniquity. "
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- Ministers served the American cause in many capacities during the Revolution: as military chaplains, as scribes for committees of correspondence, and as members of state legislatures, constitutional conventions, and the Continental Congress.
- Religious practice suffered in certain places because of the absence of ministers and the destruction of churches, but in other areas, religion flourished.
- In 1776, these enemies were American soldiers, as well as friends and neighbors of American parishioners of the Church of England.
- Patriotic American members of the Church of England, loathing to discard so fundamental a component of their faith as The Book of Common Prayer, revised it to conform to the political realities of the time.
- This is an interpretation of the proposed design for the first seal of the United States.
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- Abigail Adams was an advocate of property rights for married women and more opportunities for women, particularly in the field of education.
- Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
- She became a correspondent and adviser to many political leaders, including Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and especially John Adams, who became her literary mentor in the years leading to the Revolution.
- Prior to the American Revolution, in 1772, during a political meeting at the Warren's home, they formed the Committees of Correspondence along with Samuel Adams.
- Constitution in 1788, she issued a pamphlet, written under the pseudonym, "A Columbian Patriot," that opposed ratification of the document and advocated the inclusion of a Bill of Rights.
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- The Province of Maryland was a British colony in North America that existed from 1632 until 1776, when it joined the other 12 of the North American colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the state of Maryland.
- From 1644 to 1646, the "Plundering Time" was a period of civil unrest caused by the tensions of the English Civil War (1641–1651).
- The Protestant Revolution of 1689 was an event in Maryland when Puritans, by then a substantial majority in the colony, revolted against the proprietary government, in part because of the apparent preferment of Catholics to official positions of power.
- The need for cheap labor to help with the growth of tobacco led to a rapid expansion of indentured servitude and, later, forcible immigration and enslavement of Africans.
- The Province of Maryland was an active participant in the events leading up to the American revolution and echoed events in New England by establishing committees of correspondence and hosting its own tea party, similar to the one that took place in Boston.
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- The passage of the Stamp Act in the colonies was followed by a marked rise of organized protest movements and groups, including the Sons of Liberty.
- Political groups such as the Sons of Liberty evolved into groups such as the Committees of Correspondence: shadow governments organized by the patriot leaders of the 13 colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.
- The Declaration of Rights raised 14 points of colonial protest.
- By November of 1765, a committee was set up in New York to correspond with other colonies, and in December, an alliance was formed between groups in New York and Connecticut.
- In January, a correspondence link was established between Boston and Manhattan, and by March, Providence had initiated connections with New York, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
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- Their efforts to amend the Articles led to the development of the Constitution of the United States.
- In both their correspondence and their local groups they tried to recapture the term.
- For example, an unknown Anti-Federalist signed his public correspondence as "A Federal Farmer" and the New York committee opposing the Constitution was called the "Federal Republican Committee. " However, the Federalists prevailed and the name Anti-Federalist stuck to their opposition.
- Another complaint of the Anti-Federalists was that the Constitution provided for a centralized rather than federal form of government (in The Federalist Papers, James Madison wrote that the new Constitution has characteristics of both) and that a truly federal form of government was a leaguing of states as under the Articles of Confederation.
- Bill of Rights.
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- War propaganda campaigns by the Creel Committee and Hollywood
influenced American views on World War I.
- Tasked
with creating a prolonged propaganda campaign, the group that became known as
The Creel Committee consisted of politician and journalist George Creel, the committee chairman; Robert
Lansing, Secretary of State; Newton D.
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committee also used direct human media in the form of about 75,000 "Four
Minute Men," volunteers who delivered positive public messages about the
war.
- Endorsed by labor union
leader Samuel Gompers, the committee also targeted American
workers, filling factories and offices with posters designed to promote the
critical role of American labor in a successful war effort.
- The Creel Committee used all forms of media, such as this poster, to spread the US message during World War I.
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- Kearney began his working life as an ally of employers.
- In July 1877, when anti-Chinese violence occurred in San Francisco, Kearney joined William Tell Coleman 's vigilante Public Safety Committee as a member of Coleman's "pick handle brigade. " By August 1877, however, Kearney had been elected Secretary of the newly formed Workingmen's Party of California , and often directed violent attacks on Chinese, including denunciations of the powerful Central Pacific Railroad , which had employed them in large numbers.
- Many of these laws, which included a ban on the employment of Chinese laborers, were ruled unconstitutional by the federal Ninth Circuit Court .
- Corresponding with the English author and politician James Bryce in the late 1880s, Kearney nonetheless claimed credit for making the "Chinese Question" a national issue and affecting the legislation of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882.
- Such gestures "always provoked a storm of applause. "
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- The privately
operated Committee for Immigrants in America helped fund the Division of
Immigrant Education within the Bureau of Education.
- The most significant private organization
in this effort was the National Americanization Committee (NAC), which operated
under the direction of Frances Kellor, who in 1909 served as secretary and
treasurer of the New York State Immigration Commission before becoming chief
investigator for New York State’s Bureau of Industries and Immigration from
1910 to 1913.
- She also worked as managing director of the North American Civil
League for Immigrants and was involved in the American Association of Foreign Language
Newspapers, which linked American advertisers and foreign-language newspapers for
immigrants, and the Progressive National Committee, a political organizing
group for Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Party.
- The National Americanization Committee, led by Kellor, was one of the most significant private organizations working toward Americanization.
- Describe the rationale behind the "Americanization" of immigrants by the National Americanization Committee and the Committee for Immigrants in America.
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- The committee was instructed to investigate the status of civil rights in the country and propose measures to strengthen and protect them.
- After the committee submitted a report of its findings to President Truman, it disbanded in December 1947.
- The committee produced a report titled To Secure These Rights, which presented a detailed ten-point agenda of civil rights reforms.
- This committee ensured that defense contractors did not discriminate because of race.
- The far-reaching effects that the committee had hoped for had little impact on the civil rights of Black Americans in the late 1940s.