John Adams was the second cousin of Samuel Adams and they both had an equally great amount of influence in the Revolutionary War. Samuel was important for his persistence and fearless attitude, but John was more of a fair and lawful person.
John Adams was was born in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Adams received his undergraduate and master’s degree from Harvard in 1755 and 1758 respectively; and started practicing law in 1758.
John Adams played a prominent role in igniting the American Revolution. The Stamp Act of 1765 was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which for the first time imposed direct taxation of all colonial commercial and legal papers, newspapers, pamphlets etc. John Adams vehemently opposed it in speech and also
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Despite his hostility towards the British government, Adams believed the soldiers should receive a fair trial. He successfully defended the British soldiers with six of them being acquitted while the other two receiving reduced sentences.
Adams supported independence, and even revolution against the British Empire, but he could not stand the mobs that democracy created. The gathering of individuals with the intention of harm on property and life was the direction that Adams wished to avoid. In spite his strong feelings he took his role as a lawyer very seriously and provided the British soldiers a fair and convincing defense, proving Adams to be honest and courageous and fair who can raise beyond his own political feelings.
In 1774, John Adams was elected as representative of Massachusetts to the First Continental Congress. His greatest contribution came in the form of his ability to rally Americans around the cause of
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He showed his lawfulness by debating for hours on end to get the Declaration signed.
After the war ended John Adams helped negotiate the 1783 Treaty of Paris. Along with John Jay and Benjamin Franklin, Adams played a key role in negotiating the peace treaty, which officially ended the American Revolutionary War. The British recognized the thirteen colonies of America as a free, sovereign, and independent state. Thanks to his talent in arguing cases and persuasiveness the other terms of the treaty were also exceedingly in favor of America. Though it was Benjamin Franklin who played the foremost role in the negotiations, Adams’ stubborn temperament was also important for achieving favorable terms.
Adams held the position of the American ambassador to the Dutch Republic from 1780 , and while in office he has negotiated loans worth 29 million guilders among other things. He remained in Europe after the revolution and arranged treaties of commerce with several European nations between 1784 and 1785 thus establishing extensive trade relations between Europe and America. He is currently serving as the first U.S. ambassador to Britain from