Summarize what you read in the excerpts from How the Other Half Lives. Remember to state the most important ideas from the text in your own words. Write at least four sentences. Include at least two specific examples from the text that you read.

if you are talking about current time the answer is no

if you are talking about when the colonies were developing the answer is yes

the constitution of the united states gave congress the absolute authority over immigration laws

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.