politician of the American Revolution, leader of the Massachusetts “radicals,” who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Samuel Adams was a Founding Father of the United States and a political theorist who protested British taxation without representation, uniting the American colonies in the fight for independence during the Revolutionary War.
Samuel Adams was a political leader who played a vital role in moving colonial America to its decisive break with Britain during the American Revolution. The American Revolution led to the writing of the Declaration of the Independence.
Most scholars today believe that Jefferson derived the most famous ideas in the Declaration of Independence from the writings of English philosopher John Locke. Locke wrote his Second Treatise of Government in 1689 at the time of England's Glorious Revolution, which overthrew the rule of James II.
