In 1765 he appointed as a member of the House of Representatives, and he was appointed as a clerk. This worked well for Adams because he was good at writing to influence people.
Adams helped formulate resistance against the unfair new taxes and created rebellious acts against them. Samuel Adams was …show more content…
He created the Boston Committee of Correspondence, in Nov 1772, which became a powerful way of communication during the Revolutionary War. The point of the committee was to communicate with the other colonies to share methods of resistance to taxation without representation.
After his time with the state legislature from 1765-74, Adams was chosen as a representative of the Massachusetts Bay colony to the First Continental Congress in 1774. They sent a letter to King George III protesting the taxes. They also planned to meet again another time. Patriots all throughout the colonies started to gather weapons. In Massachusetts, Samuel Adams helped make the minutemen, a group of militia that was ready to fight at a minute’s notice.
Adams again was a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1776, and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He also participated in writing the Articles of the