Samuel Adams, John Adam's cousin and a leader of the revolutionary movement, immediately christened the event the "Boston Massacre." The bloody event galvanized the colonists, helping to swing ...

Writing in his Diary on the third anniversary of the Massacre, Adams described ... to the Stamp Act eight years earlier, John Adams applauded the Boston Tea Party. He wrote in his Diary ...

John Adams had passionately condemned mob violence. He deeply felt that the mob assembled on the night of the Boston Massacre had been a serious threat to the rule of law -- as was the bloody ...

John Adams was born on October ... country was my unalterable determination." Adams' defense of the British soldiers accused in the 1770 Boston Massacre displayed his willingness to disregard ...

Samuel Adams, John Adam's cousin and a leader of the revolutionary movement, immediately christened the event the "Boston Massacre." The bloody event galvanized the colonists, helping to swing ...