2007-02-15 05:34:20 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
Samuel Adams (September 27, 1722 – October 2, 1803) was the chief Massachusetts leader of the Patriot cause leading to the American Revolution. Organizer of protests including the Boston Tea Party, he was most influential as a writer and theorist who articulated the principles of republicanism that shaped the American political culture.
Place in history
Historian Pauline Maier (1980) argues that Adams was not the "grand incendiary" or firebrand of Revolution and was not a mob leader. Rather he took a moderate position based firmly on the English revolutionary tradition that imposed strict constraints on resistance to authority. It justified force only against threats to the constitutional rights so grave that the "body of the people" recognized the danger and after all the peaceful means of redress had failed. Within that revolutionary tradition, resistance was essentially conservative, intended to preserve what in 1748 Adams described as "the true object" of patriotic loyalty, "a good legal constitution, which . . . condemns every instance of oppression and lawless power." It had nothing in common with sedition or rebellion, which Adams, like earlier English writers, charged to officials who sought "illegal power" (Wells, vol. 1, pp. 16-17).
2007-02-15 05:43:31 · answer #1 · answered by Think Richly™ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He ran a tavern/was a brewer. More importantly he was one of the leaders of the Sons of Liberty. This was a group of colonials in Boston in the mid 1770's just as the "no taxation without representation" argument was getting fired up. He and his "brothers" were big voices in rebelling against Britain's taxes they were trying to force upon the colonies. The Tea Act and The Stamp Act are a couple of examples. The Boston Tea Party is probably the most remembered act of rebellion that Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty are responsible for.
2007-02-15 05:45:18 · answer #2 · answered by whosaysdiscoisdead 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-03 13:09:01 · answer #3 · answered by bason 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was the leader of the Boston Tea Party and one of the instigators of the American Revolution -not to mention the namesake of a damn good beer!
2007-02-15 05:38:36 · answer #4 · answered by pater47 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He helped form the political culture in America. He also organized the Boston Tea party.
2007-02-15 05:39:37 · answer #5 · answered by Baby #1 born August 2009 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cause he is "Always a good choice" lol (it should be noted that samuel jackson, however kicks more butt than adams)
2007-02-15 05:42:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Excellent beer.
2007-02-15 05:42:35 · answer #7 · answered by Captain Jack 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He makes the Best Brewed Beers!!!
That's why!!
2007-02-15 05:37:08 · answer #8 · answered by J. Charles 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he's not an important person he just makes good beer.
2007-02-15 05:38:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
because without him, there would be no good American beers. lol
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2007-02-15 05:36:42 · answer #10 · answered by I hate friggin' crybabies 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋