The Committees of Safety

question 133

Multiple Choice

The Committees of Safety:

• A) served to warn colonists if the Royal Navy was approaching.
• B) were part of a series of efforts by the Continental Congress to promote unity and to take action against enemies of liberty.
• C) killed twenty-eight Loyalists before the Revolutionary War began.
• D) took action against Catholics trying to spread Quebec's influence.
• E) were designed to protect British officials like Thomas Hutchinson but attracted too small a number of members to succeed.

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