Samuel Adams, a statesman and Founding Father, and John Adams, who would be President, were second cousins and protested British actions.
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The patriots wanted Independence from Great Britain because they protested that Great Britain had no right to tax them without the consent of their own colonial assemblies. They called the British policies "Taxation Without Representation." Some colonists refused to buy British Products.
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loyalists They called themselves Loyalists. Patriots called them Tories.