Learning Objective II
Discuss Sam Adams' background and how Sam Adams used the key events from the Stamp Act in 1765 until the Second Continental Congress of 1775 to manipulate society toward unity and into the American war for independence.
Your discussion of the key events should include the following:
Stamp Act Riots
Townshend Acts and the Circular Letters
Boston Massacre
Tea Act and the Tea Party
Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)
First and Second Congressional Congresses
Background