How do loyalists feel about the actions of the Sons of Liberty in Boston in the 1770s?
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The first major action of the Sons of Liberty was to protest the Stamp Act. They took direct action by harassing the stamp tax distributors who worked for the British government. ... They also gathered in large groups and protested in the streets.
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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. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and 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 his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams.
Samuel Adams
A stern middle-aged man with gray hair is wearing a dark red suit. He is standing behind a table, holding a rolled up document in one hand, and pointing with the other hand to a large document on the table.
In this c. 1772 portrait by John Singleton Copley, Adams points at the Massachusetts Charter, which he viewed as a constitution that protected the peoples' rights.[1][2][3][4]
4th Governor of Massachusetts
In office
October 8, 1794 – June 2, 1797
Lieutenant
Moses Gill
Preceded by
John Hancock
Succeeded by
Increase Sumner
3rd Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
In office
1789 – 1794
Acting Governor
October 8, 1793 – 1794
Governor
John Hancock
Preceded by
Benjamin Lincoln
Succeeded by
Moses Gill
President of the Massachusetts Senate
In office
1787–1788
1782–1785
Delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress
In office
1774–1777
In office
1779–1781
Clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office
1766–1774
Personal details
Born
September 27 [O.S. September 16] 1722
Boston, Massachusetts Bay
Died
October 2, 1803 (aged 81)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Resting place
Granary Burying Ground, Boston
Political party
Democratic-Republican (1790s)
Spouse(s)
Elizabeth Checkley
(m. 1749; died 1757)
Elizabeth Wells (m. 1764)
Alma mater
Harvard College
Signature
Handwritten "Saml Adams", with the "l" a raised curlicue
Adams was born in Boston, 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. He was an influential official of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Boston Town Meeting in the 1760s, and he became a part of a movement opposed to the British Parliament's efforts to tax the British American colonies without their consent. His 1768 Massachusetts Circular Letter calling for colonial non-cooperation prompted the occupation of Boston by British soldiers, eventually resulting in the Boston Massacre of 1770. Adams and his colleagues devised a committee of correspondence system in 1772 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, 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.
Parliament passed the Coercive Acts in 1774, at which time Adams attended the Continental Congress in Philadelphia which was convened to coordinate a colonial response. He helped guide Congress towards issuing the Continental Association in 1774 and the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and he 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 later became 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.
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