Samuel Adams: A Short Biography: Architect Of The American Revolution (30 Minute Book)

The son of a Boston Congregationalist deacon, Samuel Adams was educated at Harvard and took over his father's malt house business and failed. Adams admitted that he wasn't good at business, revolutionary agitator was more his game. He was one of the first American patriots to call for independence from England. Thomas Jefferson wrote of Adams "truly the man of the revolution." Adams loved to write and made a fiery newspaper editor, producing an onslaught of articles denouncing the British control of the colonies and calling for a new independent nation. A very religious man, he believed that God had intervened for the cause of the Americans in their fight for liberty. Adams played a key role in rallying the colonist against the British after the Boston Massacre and helped plan the Boston Tea Party - two incidents that helped spark the conflict between the American colonists and their mother country. He was ever the man of action, playing a pivotal role in the events that led up to the bloody confrontation between the British red-coats and the colonial militia at the Battle of Lexington and Concord. Adams spent most of his adult life in service to his country, from the early days of the Continental Congress to helping build a new nation with his work on the Massachusetts Constitution and then becoming governor of the state."Samuel Adams: A Short Biography" reveals the life and times of a true American revolutionary.

• | Author: Doug West
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Aug 02, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 76 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1087439795
• | ISBN-13: 9781087439792