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Samuel Adams Role In The American Revolution

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There are many people that made impacts on history with their literary works, but few can say they helped to spark a revolution. “It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” (Samuel Adams) Boston was an irate minority that kept setting brushfires to ignite the nation in a revolution against the British Empire. Despite suffering family bankruptcy because of the British, Samuel Adams played a crucial role in setting brushfires at the start of the American Revolution.
Samuel Adams grew up in a very religious household where his father was even a Deacon at the local church. His father, Deacon Adams, was also a local brewer and successful businessman. …show more content…

He publicized the reports of brutality toward the citizens of Boston either by written word in the papers or by making public spectacles of events. One of these events was when people were protesting Ebenezer Richardson; a customs informer. Ebenezer fired a warning shot into the crowd that gathered outside of his home, and killed a young boy named Christopher Sneider. Another incident is the Boston Massacre. The Boston Massacre was a brawl that resulted in 5 dead on King Street. Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and Dr. Joseph Warren helped in publicizing these incidents with an over-the-top funeral procession to memorialize the Massacre victims and …show more content…

It made their tea the cheapest tea to buy in Boston. They would only sell the tea t seven shops in Boston; two of which were shops owned by the Royal Governor’s, Thomas Hutchinson, sons. Samuel tried his hand at politicking by gathering support for the patriot merchants that were hurt by the Tea Act and forming the Boston Committee of Correspondence. This committee communicated by letter with the other colonies to spread resistance against the recent Acts and British government. Liberty Tree incident. November 5, 1773, there was a town meeting at Faneuil Hall where it was said that Parliament had no right to introduce arbitrary taxes, and in doing so reduced Boston to a state of slavery. November 28, Dartmouth, a tea ship owned by colonist Rotch, arrived in Boston with 114 crates of East India Company tea. December 2, Eleanor owned by colonist Rowe arrived with 114 more crates of the tea, and on December 15, Beaver another Rotch ship arrived with yet more tea. Samuel Adams started to negotiate with the owners and customs officials to send the tea back to Britian. The customs law at the time said that the ships had to unload their cargo in 20 days from when they arrived in port. The customs collector wouldn’t let the ships leave before unloading their tea. Rotch went to the Old South Meeting House on December 16 in front of thousands of angry Boston citizens trying to

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on December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams organized a group of men called the Sons of Liberty. They dressed up as Mohawk Indians. They boarded three ships in the Boston Harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. It took nearly three hours to accomplish this. The British Parliament passed the Tea Act on April 27, 1773 which was a import tax and it raised the price of tea to three cents per pound on all tea sent to America.

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In 1773, on a December night in Boston there were three ships sitting in the Boston Harbor. The Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver were the ships names. All three of those ships were carrying tea. The tea wasn’t unloaded because residents were angry because they were threatened not to buy the tea or use it. People of Boston were angry at the government of Boston that passed the “ Tea Act” since the Tea Act passed the law said the colonists had to get there tea from the East India Company.

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Because the government of Boston was a big neglected and I did not left the colonist loads the Tea in the boat but they left it there until it rotted. “Tea Act”. https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/the-tea-act

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On May 10, 1773, the British parliament passed the Tea Act and unlike the previous acts it didn’t impose new taxes and its main purpose was not to make more money from the colonies but to help out the East India Company which was struggling financially. The company was struggling because many colonists were boycotting tea to protest the tax on tea and as a result, the company had millions of pounds of unsold tea in its warehouses. The company was important to the British because it played a large role in their economy and the Tea Act gave the company a monopoly on the sales and importation of tea in the colonies. The Tea Act affected the colonists by causing merchants who were part of the illegal Dutch tea trade to lose business, forcing shop

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The Tea Act sparked the final revolutionary movement in Boston. A company from East India, burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. The tea was shipped directly to the colonies, and to be sold at a bargain price. The Townshend duties were still in place, however, the radical leaders in America found reason to believe that this act was a plot to buy popular support for the taxes already in force.

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For those reasons, the colonists were unjustified in dumping the tea into the Boston Harbor. By boarding the boats and dumping the tea, they were destroying private property. “On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.” That was 342 chests of tea that people worked hard to make that got wasted. “The chests held more than 90,000 lbs.

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342 chest of tea, amounting to over 92,000 pounds have been dumped into the harbor. However, reports show that no other cargo has been damaged in the process. The Boston Tea Party is an act of justified defiance because the colonist were tired of one of the most popular drinks

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So how was a major figure in the American Revolution? Well, in the events that led to the Revolution he took a major stance, most famously in his criticism of George III after the Stamp Act got approved.   He opposed the prices forced by the Townshend Acts and the British attempt to collect them by using the Royal Navy

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On December 16, 1773, a large group of men disguised as Native Americans bordered the tea ship and they threw 342 cases of tea into the harbor that lasted for 3 hours. Parliament passed 4 laws because the British government were outraged with what they did with the tea. These laws were so harsh that the colonists called them the Intolerable Acts. One law was that they closed the port to Boston. Two others increased the powers of the royal governor, abolished the upper house of the Massachusetts legislature, and cut the powers of town meetings.

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Samuel Adams fought for our freedoms verbally and physically. He worked by convincing the colonies to rebel with speeches and newspapers. He used his knowledge of politics and people skills to start the revolution. He is a huge factor in why we have our freedom today. When the British started the Sugar Act Adams would not accept it.

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The Tea Act of 1773 once again inflamed the Northern Radicals although it lowered tea prices. The Radicals were afraid Americans might accept the lower tea prices, which would mean they also accepted the duties (taxation without representation), and put many of the founding fathers out of the business of smuggling tea. Throughout the colonies "tea parties" were held where men turned back ships or boarded them and tossed packaged tea into the harbor. The largest in terms of tea dumped into the sea and the number of men participating was in Boston. Although no "tea party" is held in Georgia (no tea was allocated to Savannah), a somewhat symbolic party was held at the harbor in nearby Charles Town, South Carolina, where a single ship bearing tea

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In 1771 a group of colonist protested 13 years of increasing oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor. The British in disgust of the attacks retaliated by imposing even harsher penalties through taxes and such. The British adjusted import duties to bolster the troubled east India company that produced the tea and readied it for export to the colonial settlements in America. This was deemed the Tea Act of 1773, consignees in New Yor, Philidelphia and Charleston rejected the shipments of tea from the East India Company because they felt that the British taxation was unfair and that the merchants could not pay the taxation and make a profit off of the imports. Merchants in Boston Conceded to Patriot

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51 It’s a cold December day in 1773 as the Sons of Liberty prepare make history. The Sons of Liberty march up the docks of Boston to make the ultimate act of defiance against the newly established laws and taxes implemented by the tyrannous British. The British sought to tighten their tyrannical control on the colonies with unfair laws and taxes, however the Sons of Liberty weren't so willing to be forced to follow these limitations. In revenge, they dumped 92,000 pounds of British tea into the ocean.

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The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a “patriot”. They were throwing sticks, snowballs, and trash at a group of British troops. The loyalists got very annoyed with the patriots so they shot into the mob killing five. The riot began when around 50 colonists attacked a British sentinel. A British officer called in for additional troops

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When the British ships arrived in the Boston Harbor The colonist wanted the tea shipped back to England with out payment of tax. Then the royal governor of England insisted on payment of tax. On December 16 a group of men know as the Sons of Liberty disguised there self as Indians and boarded the British ships and dumped all of the tea into the Boston harbor. After that happened parliament passed Coercive Acts. Theses act were put in to place to punish the colonist for dumping the British tea into the Boston harbor.

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