What role did republicans gain from the compromise of 1877? a. federal aid to the south was controlled by republicans. b. rutherford b. hayes became president. c. republicans received powerful cabinet positions. d. radical republicans retained control of congress

B. Rutherford B. Hayes became president.

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.

the puritans were a group of people who grew discontent in the church of england the common unity strengthened the community.