Samuel Adams Dbq

Samuel Adams was not a very popular leader during the American Revolution and is known by many only by the beer produced in his name, but due in part to his efforts during this time period he should be remembered for so much more. Samuel Adams helped to lead many colonies, including that of Massachusetts, into an area that they had never been before, Revolution against their King and country. Even though historians have now labeled him as the “Father of America, many of the tactics he utilized would be very heavily analyzed in todays society, whether they were justified or not by the tyrannical government being imposed by England. Samuel Adams spent much of his life trying to free the colonies from British rule and what he thought to be one

Samuel studied at a very privileged school for boys and then later transferred to Harvard. Part of his life’s work began while studying for his master’s degree. One of his major works was done on a paper where he looked at whether or not it was legal to resist a King and its government. By the path that he chose with his life, you can see where his feelings on this subject were. Samuel Adams spent most of his days trying to free himself and others from being under the rule of what he deemed was a tyrant King.
Samuel tried his hand at being a lawyer for a while but failed miserably at it. He even attempted to work as a banker and failed and couldn’t even keep the job working for his dad’s brewery. He eventually became a tax collector but failed at this job too when his records indicated he was several thousand pounds short. It doesn’t appear that anyone ever thought that he took the money, but that he was just so bad at being a businessman.
Samuel was terrible with books and record keeping, and it appears almost anything else he attempted in the business world, until he began to work on being a revolutionary, this he excelled at. He began to write journals and for the next 20 years kept those who lived in Boston up to date on the events that led up to the