Samuel Adams Beliefs

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Though many people contributed to the uprising of America one voice was louder than all the rest, Samuel Adams. Samuel Adams was born in Boston in 1722. Adams was a puritan and believed strongly in many puritan values which were shown through his highly decorated political career. Adams was very educated and graduated from Harvard University in 1740. Adams would later go on to pen a letter directed at the crown over the injustices of the Sugar act. “For if our Trade may be taxed, why not our Lands? Why not the Produce of our Lands & everything we possess or make use of? This we apprehend annihilates our Charter Right to govern & tax ourselves. It strikes at our British privileges, which as we have never forfeited them, we hold in common with