John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

But loyal colonists believed that British laws, however unpopular, should be obeyed. John Adams, a young, enterprising lawyer, had to choose. Would he accept Britain's Stamp Act or protest the law?

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the ...