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Adams joined John Hancock, Paul Revere and James Otis in secret meetings to form the radical group the Sons of Liberty to oppose the taxation without representation. Violent protests in Boston targeted the homes of British authorities, making it nearly impossible for the British to enforce the Stamp Act.
Johnson was unwillingly caught up in the hot battle (Vietnam War) of the Cold War. Johnson was the US's only Presidential Administration to be destroyed by the war. He went on nation wide television and flat out said he would not run for president again, and would NOT ACCEPT nomination for the presidency of the United States. He was truly fed-up with the war.
They created taxes on the people so they had the money to purchase guns and weapons. But they recruited men from the cities and they took them from there families and forced them to fight in the wars.