How Did Samuel Adams Contribute To The American Revolution

Margaret Miller

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Samuel Adams Samuel Adams was born September 27, 1722 in Boston, MA. His parents were Samuel Adams Sr. and Mary Adams (Samuel Adams- www.theamericanrevolution.org). His father was a very political man, and it was very evident that he is where Samuel Adams got his political tastes from. Adams first went to a Boston Latin school in his early years. He then went on to graduate from Harvard, where he was noted as a very diligent student. He lived in Boston, MA throughout the American Revolution (www.samueladams.net). He tried to become a businessman, but his business ventures ended up in bankruptcy to his father. Samuel Adams’ genius leaned more toward politics, which is part of the reason why he

In 1763, England announced that the act of taxing the colonists was at the discretion of the crown. The tax policy filled Samuel Adams with a lot of alarm. Samuel Adams was among those voted to represent the colonists’ anger toward England’s injustice in a committee started by the colonists. Samuel Adams was the one who wrote the instructions for this committee (Samuel Adams- www.theamericanrevolution.org). Samuel Adams was one of the first Americans to come to the conclusion that independence was the only way out of the hardships that were occurring. In 1768, he helped organize the “Boston Tea Party”, which was an act of protest toward the Townshend Acts (Samuel Adams- www.theamericanrevolution.org). The act of rebellion caused the king to enforce a harsher act called the Intolerable Acts. Originally called the Coercive Acts by England, the colonists renamed the law the Intolerable Acts because the law was intolerable (Ritchie Broussard- American History, 196). Samuel Adams led the colonists throughout the revolution and was almost always elected as a representative for the

On the morning after the Boston Massacre, he represented the colonists, saying that the return of British troops would be a danger to the colonies. The passing of the Intolerable acts led Samuel Adams to urge the colonists to boycott at British trade. Samuel Adams’ urging eventually led to the forming of the Continental Congress. Samuel Adams and his cousin, John Adams, were both delegates for the Continental Congress. John Adams is famous for defending the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre, Both Samuel Adams and John Adams knew that the state of Massachusetts was both dreaded and distrusted by a lot of other colonies, especially New York and Pennsylvania. The Massachusetts legislature appointed Samuel Adams and four others to represent Massachusetts in the Second Continental Congress in 1775. At the Second Continental Congress, he pleaded for independence from Britain and a confederation of the colonies. Congress eventually approved and signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Samuel Adams was among those who signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776 (Samuel Adams-