A report on American Revolution and John Adams

Enacted during the American Revolution, the Declaration explains why the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.

John Adams, a leader in pushing for independence, had persuaded the committee to select Thomas Jefferson to compose the original draft of the document, which Congress edited.

Washington played a central role before and during the American Revolution.

Congress created the Continental Army on June 14, 1775, and Samuel and John Adams nominated Washington to become its commander-in-chief.

He was previously the second vice president of the United States under John Adams and the first United States secretary of state under George Washington.

During the American Revolution, Jefferson represented Virginia in the Continental Congress that adopted the Declaration of Independence.

He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States.

He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams.

His efforts proved vital for the American Revolution in securing French aid.

John Adams noted that he was a mirror in which people saw their own religion: "The Catholics thought him almost a Catholic. The Church of England claimed him as one of them. The Presbyterians thought him half a Presbyterian, and the Friends believed him a wet Quaker."

Thomas Hutchinson (9 September 1711 – 3 June 1780) was a businessman, historian, and a prominent Loyalist politician of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years before the American Revolution.

He was a politically polarizing figure who came to be identified by John Adams and Samuel Adams as a proponent of hated British taxes, despite his initial opposition to Parliamentary tax laws directed at the colonies.

John Hancock ( – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution.

As a child, Hancock became a casual acquaintance of young John Adams, who the Reverend Hancock had baptized in 1735.

Particularly modern republicanism has been a guiding political philosophy of the United States that has been a major part of American civic thought since its founding.

The "Founding Fathers" were strong advocates of republican values, especially Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton.

He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and helped inspire the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain.

Even some American revolutionaries objected to Common Sense; late in life John Adams called it a "crapulous mass".

The colonists' opposition to the tax marked the start of a conflict that would culminate in the American Revolution.

In the 1782 presidential election, both major parties supported Washington for re-election, but the Democratic–Republicans sought to unseat Vice President John Adams.