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Research question: How did the Committees of correspondence influence…
Research question: How did the Committees of correspondence influence property rights, taxation, and democracy for the American colonists against the English crown in the 1775 to 1780’s
Sub Question: What did the committee of correspondence do that ultimately led to the peace treaty being signed in 1782?
The english crown in colonial america greatly benefited from the import of consumer goods to the american colonies. Hence one way colonists would protest taxation without representation was by boycotting british products.
In order to enforce boycotts, Protesters created Committees of Correspondence which spread information about who was and was not observing the boycotts.
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The maryland committee of correspondence, first continental congress which convened to co ordinate a response to the fighting that started in 1775.
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By the time the british started shooting. Most of the colonists were already self governing and had developed a sens of themselves as something separate and different from the british.
Evidence as committees of correspondence, shadow governments that eventually reached out to foreign governments and establishing an espionage network, tarring and feathering loyalist and royal officials, very painful.
Even recruiting physicians to tell american men that drinking british tea would make them weak and effeminate
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Sub Question: How did the declaration of independence in 1785’s define property rights, taxation, and democracy for America?
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The articles of confederation gave the government no power to tax, hence people with property could keep it without having to pay, Most signers of declaration of independence were men with property.
Thomas jefferson: We hold theses truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal.
30% of american population were slaves of african descent who were held as property and not treated equally to whites, women couldn’t vote, neither could men with less property, and thomas jefferson had slaves himself.