Jessie+-+Sam+Adams

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**"Samuel Adams** (September 27 [ [|O.S.] September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an [|American] statesman, [|political philosopher], and one of the [|Founding Fathers of the United States] . As a politician in [|colonial Massachusetts] , Adams was a leader of the movement that became the [|American Revolution] , and was one of the architects of the principles of [|American republicanism] that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to President [|John Adams]. Born in [|Boston], Adams was brought up in a religious and politically active family. A graduate of [|Harvard College], he was an unsuccessful businessman and tax collector before concentrating on politics. As an influential official of the [|Massachusetts House of Representatives] and the [|Boston Town Meeting] in the 1760s, Adams was a part of a movement opposed to the [|British Parliament] 's efforts to tax the [|British American] colonies without their consent. His 1768 [|circular letter] calling for colonial cooperation prompted the occupation of Boston by British soldiers, eventually resulting in the [|Boston Massacre] of 1770. To help coordinate resistance to what he saw as the British government's attempts to violate the [|British Constitution] at the expense of the colonies, in 1772 Adams and his colleagues devised a [|committee of correspondence] system, which linked like-minded [|Patriots] throughout the [|Thirteen Colonies]. Continued resistance to British policy resulted in the 1773 [|Boston Tea Party] and the coming of the American Revolution. After Parliament passed the [|Coercive Acts] in 1774, Adams attended the [|Continental Congress] in Philadelphia, which was convened to coordinate a colonial response. He helped guide Congress towards issuing the [|Declaration of Independence] in 1776, and helped draft the [|Articles of Confederation] and the [|Massachusetts Constitution]. Adams returned to Massachusetts after the American Revolution, where he served in the [|state senate] and was eventually elected governor. Samuel Adams is a controversial figure in American history. Accounts written in the 19th century praised him as someone who had been steering his fellow colonists towards independence long before the outbreak of the [|Revolutionary War]. This view gave way to negative assessments of Adams in the first half of the 20th century, in which he was portrayed as a master of [|propaganda] who provoked [|mob violence] to achieve his goals. Both of these interpretations have been challenged by some modern scholars, who argue that these traditional depictions of Adams are myths contradicted by the historical record."