In the 1860s and 1970s, the North American people set off a struggle against British colonial rule and oppression. The British colonial authorities carried out cruel suppression. In March 1770, the British colonial authorities created the appalling "Boston Massacre." The violence has set off a larger scale of anti-British struggles among the people of North America.
However, the struggle at that time was still very scattered, there was no unified leadership and coordinated action in the mass struggles in various places, and the local struggles lacked unity. Faced with this situation, in 1772, Samir Adams determined to establish a semi-secret revolutionary organization to uniformly guide the actions of the masses in various places. This organization was the "Communication Committee." In November 1772, he suggested that the Boston City Council organize a communications committee to exchange information with other cities in the Massachusetts colony and take concerted action when necessary. In this way, the Communications Committee was first established in Boston. At the end of the same year, eight more cities responded to this proposal and organized the same communications committee.
The following year, Virginia, Rhode Island, Connecticut, South Carolina, etc. all established communications committees one after another. These communication committees strengthened the ties and unity between the people of the colonies, and played a role in organizing, propagating and coordinating actions in the anti-British struggle.