- Britain repealed all of the Townshend Acts except the tea tax on April 9th, 1770. This to underscore the supremacy of parliament.
- The first Comittee of Correspondence was established In Boston on November 2nd, 1772. These were provisional Patriot emergency governments to provide colonial leadership and aid intercolonial cooperation.
-The Boston Tea Party occurred on December 16th, 1773. 342 crates of British tea were destructed in response to the British taxation policies.
- The Comitte of Safety was established on late 1774. They formed the bridge between the colonial political order and the American republican order,