John Adams Research Paper

John Adams - The Founding of the Republic John Adams was born into a comfortable life, but not a wealthy one. He came from a family of farmers located in Massachusetts; he was born October 30 1735. John 's father was also the deacon in the Congregational Church in their tidy little New England village, and besides farming earned a living as a shoe maker. John grew up your average child, spending all of his time outdoors, hating school, hunting and fishing; John was even caught skipping school to go hunting and fishing on the norm. John later said in his life he would have been just as happy and actually preferred to have been a farmer due to the love of the outdoors. John 's father was the one who wished him to get a quality education …show more content…
He had a lot of ups and downs as a lawyer and establishing his practice. For his first year that his practice was open he only had one client and he did not win the initial case; he won it at the jury case 3 years later. After winning that case, his practice grew in leaps and bounds. John Adams became the most successful lawyer in Boston, he had twice the case load of any other lawyer in the city and won twice as many cases. John was chosen to defend the soldiers of the British Army who were accused of the Boston Massacre in March 1770. John actually prevented any of the accused from even setting foot into a jail with his incredible …show more content…
John was simple afraid his participation would hurt his family, and his legal practice. He had no trust in the leaders of the radical movement, that included his cousin Samuel Adams. But not long afterwards he felt he had to act, he began writing anonymous newspaper essays and helping to print the colonial propaganda pieces. His most famous piece published during the Stamp Act was titled "A Dissertation on Cannon and Feudal Law" in the Boston Gazette. John Adams did not intend for this paper to be a political essay or even relate to the Stamp act; but the paper created such an inspiration in the people; the paper wrote about the horrible British laws being forced upon them and how Americans had God given freedom and liberty. John then joined the group the Sons of Liberty; which was ran by his cousin Samuel Adams and friend James Otis. The Sons of Liberty was basically an organized mob when it comes down to it, they operated in secret against the Stamp Act; they organized riots and intimated tax collectors. But John Adams hated the violence that the Sons of Liberty enacted upon the city streets and actually wished for a peaceful resolution on changing the policy of the Stamp Act. John Adams eventually lost his job due to Mr. Hutchinson prevented any court from opening its doors due to the rioting in the streets; without a