The First Amendment states that the government cannot make laws concerned with the establishment of religion. Nor can it make laws that prevent people from practicing their beliefs. Both documents state that citizens shall have freedom of religion and that they cannot be punished for their beliefs. Both documents call for the separation of church and state. Which of the following did you include in your response? Check any that apply.

separation of religion and government (church and state)
freedom of religion
similarities between documents to support answer

- encouraging nationalism

- returning to conservative political policies

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.