On this day 250 years ago in London, Parliament passed the Massachusetts Government Act and the ironically named (from the Patriot perspective) Act for the Impartial Administration of Justice. King George III approved both Acts on this same day. The Massachusetts Government Act suspended elected offices in the colony and allowed the Crown to appoint their replacements. The “Administration of Justice” Act suspended trial by jury in Massachusetts and allowed British soldiers and officials to be returned to Britain for trial. These are the second and third of the Intolerable Acts that drove America to Revolution and probably did more to spark the Revolutionary War than any other acts of the British government before the first shots were fired at Lexington.

Source: https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/the-revolutionary-war/the-coercive-acts-of-1774-timeline

Also on this day at a meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania became the thirteenth and final colony to form a Committee of Correspondence. That original committee of 19 members would grow to 43, then to 66, and finally to to 200 members during its two years of existence. Hundreds of Pennsylvania Patriots participated in one or more of the committees, but only four were in all of them: Thomas Barclay, John Cox, Jr., John Dickinson, and Joseph Reed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committees_of_correspondence#Ryerson