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samuel was born September 27, 1722.
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"the British Parliament dissolved the colonial “land banks,” established to help landowners mortgage their land to gain access to money."
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"sam and his friends he published The Independent Advertiser, a newspaper to promote his opinion pieces, launching a career as a political leader and agitator."
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in 1749 he married his pastor’s daughter, Elizabeth Checkley. They lived in his family home on Purchase Street and had six children before her death less than a decade later.
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He remarried in 1764 to Elizabeth Wells.
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The Sugar Act was repealed, but Britain began a succession of harsher taxes, beginning with the Stamp Act, which imposed a tax on all printed documents. Adams joined John Hancock, Paul Revere and James Otis in secret meetings to form the radical group the Sons of Liberty to oppose the taxation without representation.
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"taxing a range of British imports. Adams knew a bigger response was needed than just protests in Boston. He drafted the Massachusetts Circular Letter, a direct appeal to King George III, to be shared among the colonies and sparking a united boycott of British goods."
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"a deadly confrontation in which the British shot five unarmed colonists."
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in a packed room in Boston’s Old South Meeting House when a peaceful solution seemed impossible, Adams exclaimed, “This meeting can do nothing more to save the country!”
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"he worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help ensure that on July 4, 1776, the colonies would pass the Declaration of Independence for the new nation."
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the war ended, and the colonists won independence.
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He retired due to ill health in 1797
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he died on October 2, 1803, at age 81.
