Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts on September 27, 1722. He was a leader of the fight against British colonial rule, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was a cousin of John Adams who became the second President of the United States. When Samuel Adams was young, his father wanted him to be a minister. Samuel went to work in a counting house, but he was not good at adding and he spent too much time talking to other people about politics. Later the people in Boston elected him to be a tax collector, but he didn't like taking money from people.
Adams' father, a deacon of the church, played a major role in Boston politics. When Samuel was a young man, the royal government ruled the senior Adams' investments, ruining him financially. This may have been the cause of Samuel's opposition to colonial authority. He later on graduated in 1743 from Harvard College. Adams was a vocal opponent of several laws passed by the British Parliament to raise revenue in the American Colonies. Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry were two of the first people to argue for independence. Sam wrote letters about independence and sent them to newspapers and leaders around the country. Sam signed all the letters with different names so that the people who read the papers would think all of Boston wanted independence from England. Opposition reached its peak on December 16, 1773 when a group of Bostonians dumped a British cargo of tea into Boston Harbor. This act of resistance is referred to as the Boston Tea Party. The British Parliament responded to the "Boston Tea Party" by passing a set of laws referred to as the "Intolerable Acts." Sam convinced many young men that independence would be good for America. Paul Revere, John Adams and John Hancock were some of the men who agreed with Sam's ideas. These three men became better known than Sam, even though his ideas helped shape their thoughts on independence. The British thought that Samuel Adams was a big troublemaker and they were right. They called him "the most dangerous man in Massachusetts." He later on signed the Declaration of Independence. After being sick for most of the summer of 1803 he died of unspecified causes, with what today would be called "natural" early on the morning of Sunday, October 2.
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