John Adams Biography

Anudeep Nallan Chakravarthy
Ms. Byrne
U S history, Period1
24 December 2016 John Adams a leader
The first vice president and the second president of America are John Adams. Adam is considered to be a founding father of America. John Adams was a leadership helped us win the support for the American Revolution and in formulating the Declaration of Independence (history). He was a well known as a leader of the American revolution because Adams became a very powerful critic that always questioned Great Britain’s authority in colonial Americas. Adams thought that the British were using of high taxes and tariffs as a tool of oppression. Adams wrote a lot of very important essays that were highly influential
John Adams was the oldest child of John family and Susanna Boylston Adams. His father was a farm worker and he was also a shoemaker. As a healthy young and a curious boy, John Adams loved the outdoors. He frequently skipped school just to go hunt. He always said that he wanted to farm and he preferred to lead a life as a farmer. His father wanted Adams to receive a formal education (Millar). Adam was a very clever student. Adams graduated Harvard because of his father. He later became a teacher and he studied law with an attorney in Worcester, Massachusetts. Adams began his career as a lawyer after he studied law and in 2 years he became one of Boston's best attorneys. Adams got married to Abigail Smith. Adams and Abigail had five children. The oldest son was John Quincy Adams who later became the sixth President of the American. The other four kids were Abigail, Susannah, Charles, and Thomas (miller). Adams was one of Boston's best attorneys so he was chosen by Britain to defend their soldiers that were involved in Boston Massacre (history). Because of his able defense, none of the British soldiers were sent to jail. During these years, Adams lived in Boston and Quincy. As he was well liked, Adams wrote and published many essays that were in Boston newspapers his essays were on social, legal, and political
The following year, he came back to America and worked as the principal maker of the Massachusetts Constitution which is considered the oldest surviving written constitution in the world (history). By January of 1780, Adam was sent to Europe again, to serve as a diplomatic capacitor. Adams went, along with John Jay and Benjamin Franklin together they helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris, which ended the relation between America and Britain (history). When Benjamin Franklin was made minister Adams felt that he was supposed to get it.
In conclusion John Adams was a leader in the revolution because he attended the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia as a delegate for Massachusetts ,Adams also spoke out against the Townshend Acts of 1767, which levied tariffs on goods such as paper, glass, and tea that were imported to America and Adams worked as the principal maker of the Massachusetts