Scarcity is the fundamental problem facing all societies. It is the condition that results from society not having enough resources to produce all the things that people would like to have.
So that not one person is given so much power they can attack the rights of citizens.
The committees of correspondence were associations of people that formed in several populated areas among the thirteen colonies during 1773. These groups were in charge of disseminating anti-British propaganda in their locations. They played a key role due to the fact they grew to such extent that they would later unify into one single entity during the Revolutionary War.
<span>Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, British
officials found it difficult to enforce laws regulating trade restrictions in the American colonies. Smuggling was commonplace.</span><span>
<span>Oliver Cromwell ended the tradition of Puritanism in favor of mercantilism,
a political and economic policy in which government
takes control of all economic activities. Key industries were taxed, and new laws were created to
increase Britain's colonial revenues.</span></span>
