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Wulang Avicenna
Coach Wright
AP US History
3 August 2015
John Adams Summer Assignment Essay From 1776 onwards, the United States of America had a strong foundation for government and tradition. Great men such as the Founding Fathers established these foundations for incoming future generations. One of these great men included John Adams. As an American colonist, as a voice of the American Revolution, as a Founding Father and as second President of the United States, John Adams was one of the most influential men in U.S history. As an American born colonist, Adams identified himself as an American before considering himself an Englishman. Adams would soon become a celebrated lawyer and a great thinker later in his life. As a child, John Adams left his Puritan roots for Unitarianism, the belief that God is one entity. He began and finished his law education at Harvard College where he soon settled down in his childhood town of Braintree as a lawyer. During a famous case in his law career, John Adams successfully defended the British soldiers who were involved in the Boston Massacre shooting, which had angered many of the American colonists. …show more content…

John Adams was not willing to help the radicals, which included his cousin Samuel Adams, at first but he decided to anyways. He later became convinced that the radicals made the right choice to go against the British. The British government had proposed many totalitarian laws such as the Stamp Act, Sugar Act, and other acts onto the American colonies. Consequentially, many of those acts angered the colonists. The colonists needed representation and a voice against the British government so John Adams was one of the men who acted as the voice of the colonists. Adams wrote many newspaper essays and propaganda aimed negatively at the

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