What was the volstead act?
a. an act passed by congress to stop the influx of immigrants from europe
b. an act passed by congress to aid the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol
c. an act passed by congress to review scientific claims against the bible in textbooks
d. an act passed by congress to aid the enforcement of the eighteenth amendment
e. an act passed by congress to monitor the movements of revolutionary immigrants

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.