WORLD HISTORY

EMERGENCE OF USA

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Read the information below.* second president* served as George Washington’s vice-president* lawyer* defended the British soldiers in the Boston MassacreWhat is the name of the person described in the box above?
A
George Washington
B
Thomas Jefferson
C
Ben Franklin
D
John Adams
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -John Adams, a remarkable political philosopher, served as the second President of the United States (1797-1801), after serving as the first Vice President under President George Washington. Learned and thoughtful, John Adams was more remarkable as a political philosopher than as a politician.

Detailed explanation-2: -By 1770, Adams was a highly successful lawyer with perhaps the largest caseload of any attorney in Boston, and he was chosen to defend the British soldiers who were charged in the Boston Massacre in March 1770.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743, Old Style, Julian calendar), at the family’s Shadwell Plantation in the British Colony of Virginia, the third of ten children.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Jefferson, a spokesman for democracy, was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (1801–1809).

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