Samuel Adams
- ISBN-10
- 1612288154
- ISBN-13
- 9781612288154
- Series
- Samuel Adams
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 48
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-03
- Publisher
- Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
- Author
- Karen Bush Gibson
Description
As America's first politician, Samuel Adams dedicated his life to improving the lives of the colonists. At a young age, he began talking and listening to people to find out what issues mattered the most. Adams proposed new ideas, first in his own newspaper, then in other newspapers throughout the colonies. When Britain began taxing the colonies, Adams encouraged boycotting and peaceful protests. He was an organizer of the Boston Tea Party, one of the main events leading up to the American Revolution. The British seemed intent on imprisoning Adams to keep him from speaking out, but he refused to stop. He was one of the first people to publicly declare that the colonies should be independent, and he worked tirelessly to see that they gained that independence. According to Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams was the Father of the Revolution.
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