How Did Samuel Adams Influence American Politics

I chose to research Samuel Adams. He was a representative of Massachusetts and in the continental congress, I believe. Samuel Adams is an incredibly notable figure in the history of American Politics. Being the second cousin of Former American President John Adams (probably), Samuel was a natural statesman making a great impact in the birth of modern day United States. He was a key figure who started out the revolutionary movement which later went on to become the American Revolution. Samuel Adams was the man who had first voiced his dissent and opposition against the British Parliament's efforts to tax the British colonies without their consent. Samuel had inspired his fellow colonists to strive for independence long before the American Revolution

Samuel was born in a family of 12 children to parents who were strict Puritans and went to the Old South Congregational Church as members of the Church. Samuel’s family lived in a house on Purchase Street in Boston. Samuel (being brought up in Puritan values he was proud of them and even implied them in his political career. Samuel Adams went to Boston Latin School and he had gotten enrolled to Harvard College in 1736. Adams’ parents wanted him to become a minister, but with time Adams grew more inclined to take up politics as his choice of a career. Adams graduated in 1740 and finished his Master’s Degree in 1743. Adams faced his father’s demise at a tender age which led him to manage his family’s estates (poor guy). While doing this Samuel realized how vulnerable their position was in defending their family property from the hands of government seizure. Adams’ family faced constant fear of the Government’s ill motives which formed the base for Adam’s realization that British rule exercised their power on the American colonies in arbitrary and destructive

He studied Greek and Latin in a schoolhouse, and was accepted into Harvard University at the age of fourteen. He was also a member of the sons of liberty. Here’s the story of it: Samuel Adams was agitated by the presence of regular soldiers in the town. He and the leading Sons of Liberty (whoever they are) publicized accounts of the soldiers’ brutality toward the citizenry of Boston. On February 22, 1770, a dispute over non-importation boiled over into a riot. A customs informer by the name of Ebenezer Richardson was under attack. He fired a warning shot into the crowd that had gathered outside of his home, and accidentally killed a young boy by the name of Christopher Sneider (if his name is actually spelled this way). Only a few weeks later, on March 5, 1770, a couple of brawls between rope makers on Gray’s ropewalk and a soldier looking for work, and a scuffle between an officer and a wig-maker’s apprentice, resulted in the Boston Massacre. In the years that followed, Adams did everything he could to keep the memory of the five Bostonians who were slain on King Street, and of the young boy, Christopher Sneider alive. He led an elaborate funeral procession to memorialize Sneider and the victims of the Boston Massacre. The memorials orchestrated by Samuel Adams, Dr. Joseph Warren, and Paul Revere reminded Bostonians of the unbridled authority which Parliament had exercised in the colonies, whatever those