John Adams Administration - Career
Career
In the 1760s Adams continued to study law and slowly built his law practice. He also began to involve himself in the maelstrom of revolutionary politics. When the French and Indian Wars ended in 1763, victorious Britain had accumulated a large debt. To remedy this, the British parliament enacted a series of tax and custom duty laws that became known as the Intolerable Acts. American colonists protested, believing it was unfair to be taxed by a legislature in which they had no representation.
After Britain's enactment of the Revenue Act, or Sugar Act, of 1764 and the Stamp Act of 1765, John Adams's cousin Sam Adams organized groups of protesters in Boston, Massachusetts. After listening to his cousin and attending some of the meetings, John Adams emerged as an effective spokesman against British imperial policy. In August of 1765 Adams published the first of four essays in the Boston Gazette that later were...
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