The Role Of Samuel Adams In The American Revolution

Who did you think of when someone says “Father of the American Revolution’”, perhaps you think of George Washington or Ben Franklin. When thinking of the father of the American Revolution, I think of Samuel Adams. Let me tell you why Samuel Adams played a huge part in the founding of our country. Before we dive deep into how Samuel Adams drove the British out of the colonies, we must talk about his childhood. Samuel grew up in a very strict Puritan household, he would often attend 4 hour sermons. Samuel's father, Samuel, was a deacon for the church near their house. His father was also quite wealthy for the time, so the Adams house was next to the harbor and was very large for just an everyday family. Across the street from the Adam’s house
Although both his father and his employer said that he was not very good at it. He would more often than not get the amounts wrong and have to pay back the difference to the shop owner. His boss said that he was too focused on politics and that was causing him to work poorly. Young Samuel was excited when he was able to join a local political club in his town of Boston, known as the Caucus Club. The Caucus club was a club that's purpose was to unit follow citizens who believed in the same ideas. In Bostons case it was not letting the British stomp all over them. One example would be the sugar act of 1764. The sugar act was a an act applied by the British Parliament that lowered the rate of tax on sugar from six pence per gallon to three pence per gallon, this meant that the colonies did make as much money from their trade goods that they sold. The colonists were not happy about this whatsoever. One other huge problem that the colonists were having, was that while the British Parliament was making all of these decisions like the stamp and the sugar act, the colonists did not have any representatives in the Parliament. In the year 1770 Samuel Adams was very angry with the British. They had killed 10 colonists and injured 6 others in what would later be called the Boston Massacre. This made Adam's want to take action immediately, he began to spread his opinion around the colonies by writing about them
If it were not for Samuel Adams the colonists may have never bound together to go against all the unfair laws and acts that the British were enforcing on them. One reason I think not everybody thinks of Samuel Adams when they think of the American Revolution, was because he was never really the kind of guy to want all the attention, glory, or fame that came with the work he did. He wrote his newspaper stories under false names, he would go as far as to make other people get the glory for his work, this to me shows off Adam's personality of being a quiet guy who loved politics and his country. “Of the founding fathers only Samuel Adams advocated independence before Lexington”(Puls). To me this statement from Mark Puls shows that Adams was an American Patriot and that he was working hard to get the colonists the rights that they deserved and get rid of British rule. While he was not President of the United States like his cousin John Adams, or have any famous war stories like George Washington. I think that Samuel Adams played an important part in the American Revolution and our country's