Samuel Adams Facts
Samuel Adams Facts
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Interesting Samuel Adams Facts: |
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Adams worked as a tax collector in the 1760s, but he often refused to collect taxes, which resulted in him losing the position but gaining popularity and political points with the nascent anti-British community in Boston. |
Samuel Adams was the second cousin of the second American President John Adams. |
In 1765, Adams wrote a series of anti-Stamp Act resolutions for the Massachusetts House of Representatives while he was a representative. |
John Adams was often confused with Samuel, especially when he traveled abroad during the Revolution. |
Along with James Otis Junior, Adams authored the Massachusetts Circular Letter in 1768 in response to the Townshend Act. It is considered by most historians to have been a major step toward the Revolution as it argued that the colonies could only be taxed by their own representatives. |
Adams was one of the founders of the Committees of Correspondence, which began in 1772 and played a key role in the Boston Tea Party of 1773. |
During the American Revolution, Adams represented Massachusetts in the Continental Congress. |
Adams carried his Puritan values with him throughout his life and believed that morality and religion had a strong place in politics and government. |
After the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the British proclaimed an amnesty for all Patriots who put down their arms, with the exceptions of Samuel Adams and John Hancock. |
Adams was one of the chief architects of the Articles of Confederation and was initially opposed to the United States Constitution, being in the Anti-Federalist camp. |
After the Revolution, Adams was vehemently opposed to early American tax rebellions, such as Shay's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion, because he argued that the rebels had proper legislative representation. |
Adams died on October 2, 1803 at the age of eighty-one in his home of Boston, which is where he was buried. |
The Samuel Adams Beer company uses Adams' name because it is a Boston based company and because Adams worked briefly as a brewer before his foray into politics. |
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