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4. Which statement below best describes the goal of the Berlin Conference of 1884-85?
To create a military alliance between Britain and Japan to claim land in Asia.
To create a set of principles among European countries to avoid conflict while colonizing Africa.
To create guidelines that would help the people of African kingdoms economically develop
To create a new government in Germany as they became a unified state.

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.

false the first governing document in the us history was the articles of federation