Person1722 – 1803

Samuel Adams

Boston politician and leader of the Sons of Liberty against British taxation; a leader of the American Revolution

Where they went

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1765 – 1766Stamp Actkey figure
To pay the debts of the Seven Years’ War, Parliament required stamps on colonial newspapers, legal papers and even playing cards; the colonists resisted with the cry “No taxation without representation.”
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1770Boston Massacrerelated figure
British soldiers quartered in Boston fired into a crowd pelting them with snowballs and insults, killing five people.
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1773Boston Tea Partykey figure
When Britain gave the East India Company a monopoly on selling tea in the colonies, Boston colonists disguised as Native Americans dumped the tea from ships in the harbour into the sea.
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1775Battles of Lexington and Concordrelated figure
British regulars sent to seize militia arms at Concord exchanged fire with colonial militia at Lexington and Concord — the first fighting of the American Revolutionary War.

Paul Revere1735 – 1818
Boston silversmith who rode through the night of 18 April 1775 to warn that the British regulars were coming
George III1738 – 1820
King of Great Britain (r. 1760–1820), in whose reign the thirteen American colonies won independence
John Adams1735 – 1826
Massachusetts lawyer and statesman who championed independence in Congress, negotiated the Treaty of Paris and became the second US president (1797–1801)

Islamic Empires and the Atlantic World1500 – 1800
Three centuries in which the Ottomans of Suleiman I, the Mughals of Akbar and the Safavids of Abbas I flourished and then faltered, while across the Atlantic the slave trade and colonies transformed the Americas, leading to American independence
The American Revolution1765 – 1789
From the Stamp Act to Washington’s inauguration — thirteen colonies that cried “No taxation without representation” fought Britain for eight years, won their independence and framed a new republic under the Constitution