USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused, Patriot leader Samuel Adams organized the “tea party” with about 60 members of the Sons of Liberty, his underground resistance group. The British tea dumped in Boston Harbor on the night of December 16 was valued at some $18, 000.

Detailed explanation-2: -Political Career Adams was elected to the Massachusetts Assembly in 1765. He helped to organize the Stamp Act Congress held in New York where the colonies planned a unified response to the Stamp Act. After the Boston Massacre occurred in 1770, Adams worked to get the British army removed from the city.

Detailed explanation-3: -John Adams did not have any role to play in the Boston Tea Party. Some historians have said that Adams had offered his legal advice to Francis Rotch, the owner of Dartmouth and Beaver, the two ships carrying tea. But others claim that Adams wasn’t in Boston when the packets of tea were thrown overboard by the Patriots.

Detailed explanation-4: -As a delegate to the Continental Congress, Adams acted as both a signer of the Declaration of Independence as well as a framer of the Articles of Confederation, the governing laws of America before the Constitution.