Sam Adams and his journalistic contribution

In my opinion Sam Adams had such a major impact on journalism and his writings have gone down in history as beyond powerful in what we know today as America.  Sam Adams worked at the Boston Gazette. Adams wrote essays about his political ideas. These ideas were developing in Boston. The eager publishers were quickly to get his writings to print. The British passed the Sugar Act in 1764. This Act put a 3 cent tax on foreign sugar and increased taxes on coffee, and certain kinds of wine. It banned importation of rum and French wines. The affected merchants were very vocal. Besides, the taxes were raised without the consent of the colonists. This was one of the first instances in which colonists wanted a say in how much they were taxed. Then the British passed an even harsher tax law than the Sugar Act. This tax law was the Stamp Act of 1765, which placed a tax on printed materials throughout the American colonies.

Adams's sizzling essays and continued determination helped harden American opinion against the Stamp Act. His columns in the Boston Gazette newspaper sent a flood of abuse against the British government. He wrote numerous newspaper articles that stirred his readers' anger at the British. Adams appealed to American radicals and communicated with leaders in other colonies. By the time of the battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts on April 17, 1775, (the beginning of the Revolutionary War) his career and his popularity began to rise.  Adams was then elected into the Massachusetts legislature.

I really find it amazing that the words of one man, like Sam Adams led to a following of people in the colonies that were swayed into believing that they deserved to be on their own and this led to a push to become the independent land that is known today as America.