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Samuel Adams
Native of Boston ,educated at Harvard Farther died when he was 26 A failed businessman and was a tax collector for city of Boston for 10 years prior to enter in to politics A mediocre in his profession and outraged at British tyranny 4th Governor of Massachusetts Cousin to John Adams
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Major early leader of the American Revolution: Known as the farther of American revolution
Led protest against Stamp Act Founded the Sons of Liberty Organized the Boston Tea Party- Parliament passed a new tax on tea to save the East India Company from failing. Tea Act of 1773 Colonial protests included: the Boston Tea Party; a tea party in New York;
John Adams
Second President of the United States 1st Vice President under George Washington Farther was a farmer and a shoemaker An avid reader and lawyer
Many founding fathers had a vision but Adams was the first to articulate the single idea that would unite all the colonies Continental Congress member
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham was the 16th president of the United states. He was one of the great leaders in American history.
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Early Life
Abraham Lincoln was born on Sunday, February 12th, 1809 in a log cabin in Kentucky. His parents names were Tom and Nancy Lincoln. When he was 7, his family moved to Indiana. He started school when he was 8 years old. When he was 10, his mom died of milk fever. In March 1832, he decided to run for the state legislature. He married Mary Todd Lincoln on November 4, 1842
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Political Life
In 1834, Lincoln was elected to the state legislature and served for three terms in a row. He became President November 6, 1860, & first Republican President He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. He was the President during the Civil War He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Fords Theatre while watching a play with his wife in April 14 1865.
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Obama and Abraham Lincoln are both prolific speech writers and strong orators with a sense of morality in their rhetoric.
Obama and Lincoln are both tall and lanky. Both have a calming, confident demeanor and tone. Both men like to wear black.
Abraham Lincoln would have well understood the challenges facing many modern emerging nations. In Lincoln's America, as in many developing nations today, sweeping economic change threatened older industries, traditional ways of living, and social and national cohesion by exposing economies and societies to new and powerful competitive forces.
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