Mark Puls’ Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution brought to light one of the most undervalued yet highly influential founding fathers of the American revolutionary era. Adams is widely regarded as one of the first fervent idealists of American independence.…
The Boston Tea party was a political protest that took place on December 16, 1773 after the colonists got fed up with paying taxes on British tea. The British parliament put taxes on their imports to America. After colonists thought this was illegal and unfair, the British parliament stopped taxing all goods except tea. Few years later they passed out the Tea Act, which brought out the East India Company to relieve their debt. This company actually earned a lot of money by trading with America but the colonists thought this would put local British tea sellers out of business due to no customers. This led the Sons of Liberty to overthrow 342 crates of tea from the East India Company into the Boston Harbor.…
On July 11, 1767, in Braintree, Massachusetts. John Quincy Adams was born. His father, the second president of US, and his mother, the first lady of the White House. He traveled to France with his father when he was 10. At the age of 14, he received training in the diplomatic divisions and went to school . Adams traveled with the lawyer, Francis Dana, to Russia, working as his secretary and translator. He went to school in Europe and became really fluent in French, Dutch, and German. Then he returned home and joined Harvard College in 1785 and graduated two years later.…
Abigail Adams married John Adams on October 25, 1764. John Adams was a lawyer at the time and was away most of the time. Soon after, John Adams worked his way up serving time in Congress to becoming vice president and then to be president of the United State. They had six children, but one died after a year and one that was stillborn. Abigail Adams had the responsibility of raising and teaching her children, plus working on the farm.…
John Adams is currently running for president. John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts. When Adam was 16, he had earned a scholarship to attend Harvard University. After four years, Adams graduated and studied law in the office of James Putnam, a well-known lawyer. In 1758, he earned a master's degree from Harvard. His father wanted him to do ministry, but he worked hard and got what he wanted. He is an ideal candidate for this election.…
Adams helped formulate resistance against the unfair new taxes and created rebellious acts against them. Samuel Adams was successful in convincing people to join the Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty were a group originally called the Loyal Nine who were opposed to British politics and wanted to have freedom from Britain. By writing articles and using his own politics, Adams was able to recruit skillful men to the group, including Josiah Quincy and Samuel Adams’s second cousin John Adams. When the Parliament passed the Stamp Act of 1765, Adams became angry that King George III would tax the colonies without giving them any representation in the government. He helped arrange the Stamp Act Congress held in New York where the colonies planned…
Fake new has been shared worldwide with people since 1769. “In 1769, John Adams gleefully wrote in his diary about spending the evening occupied with "a curious employment. Cooking up Paragraphs, Articles, Occurrences etc. - working the political Engine!"Adams, along with his cousin, Sam, and a handful of other Boston patriots, were planting false and exaggerated stories meant to undermine royal authority in Massachusetts.”(Parkinson) This false news is being shared with the purpose of hoping to hurting someone or something. “It said that American forces had discovered bags containing more than 700 scalps of people living in the country that were taken by Indians who were partnered with King George of…
Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States of America, was born on April 13, 1743 in Shadwell, Virginia. Thomas was the first president to be inaugurated in Washington DC and was also one of the first presidents to go to college. Thomas was one of the founding fathers of the United States. He was also one of the many authors for the Declaration of Independence in 1776, which was a big step for America. He ran for president in the 1800s and he was elected in 1801, which he served a total of two terms, which later on ended on 1809. (Wikipedia)…
The election between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams was full of controversy. John Quincy Adams’ presidential term was full of in-house problems because of his race being allegedly being helped by Henry Clay which made his constitutional agenda not being pushed in. But if I were to choose a president, I choose John Quincy Adams because he’s very intelligent and is already with good relations with other countries in Europe.…
In the story "John Adams and the Coming of the Revolution”, author David McCullough discusses how John Adams was asked to defend the British soldiers in court of the soldier’s accusation of man slaughter, following the Boston Massacre. Being such a problematic case that could ruin his reputation, John Adams accepted to defend the soldiers because of his experience in difficult cases, and his strong principles and beliefs. John Adam’s reputation did not even tarnish because of how skillfully he handled the case gaining the respect of the people of Boston.…
John Adams was the oldest son of Susanna and John Adams, born on October 30, 1735 in Massachusetts. Adams was always a bright student and received good grades throughout his school years. He went to Harvard College and later studied law with an attorney, only to become one of the best attorneys of Boston. Several years later, John Adams met an extremely intelligent woman named Abigail, whom he later married and had six children with. Abigail played a huge role in John’s life, supporting him greatly and helping his career a lot.…
Abigail Adams married a man destined to be a major leader of the American Revolution and the second President of the United States. Although she married and raised men that become such significant figures during their time, her herself was played an important role in the American society. The events that happened in her life, starting from childhood and ending in her adult years, led her to be a Revolutionary woman. Three main reasons behind her becoming such a strong, independent woman was the fact that she married a man who had an important role in politics, growing up with no education, and raising a family basically by herself.…
John Adams is the person I admire the most. Since I am on this American Revolution kick, I going to shout out for the Forgotten Patriot. John Adams, without him there might not have been an American Revolution, not that it was an effort by a single man but several singular men held the Revolution together. John Adams endured. People actively disliked him for his intellect, his supposed coldness, and prickly nature. They poked fun at a man who was pudgy and bald before age thirty. A man later dubbed as 'His Redundancy,' Adams was frequently accused of being an aristocrat who lined his purse at other’s expense and despite Adams invaluable service to the Revolution and the Peace, the multi-headed beast first called Anti-Federalist and later Democratic-Republicans.…
Augustus Jay, his paternal grandfather, established the Jay family’s existence in America. Augustus Jay, unable to stay in France, settled in New York. He, with a superior marriage and a growing mercantile business, soon created a powerful foundation for his descendants . John Jay’s maternal family was of solid Dutch American background; they had become prominent and quite wealthy as well. Jacobus Van Cortlandt, his maternal grandfather, served New York City twice as its mayor. Like Augustus Jay, his son Peter was a merchant. Peter and his wife, Mary Van Cortlandt, had ten children, seven of them surviving into adulthood. John Jay was born on December 12, 1745, in New York. He was the eighth child to the wealthy merchant’s family. After John’s birth, his family left Manhattan. In order to provide a more wholesome environment for the raising of the Jay children, his family moved to Rye, New York.…
The relationship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson was one of the most iconic and symbolic relationships in American history not only for its many ups and downs, but also for its great effects on the founding and governing of America.…