On today’s episode of Founded we’re finding out how Boston started the American Revolution via newspapers. Obviously Samuel Adams is the star of the show but it’s more than what he did, it’s how he did it. The British decided that a military occupation of Boston would be the best way to quell the mobs but they were wrong, their decisions only served to give the opposition more ammo. The opposition who had control of the government from the inside out, things get sticky and by this point America is well on its way to declaring independence, all the way back in 1768.

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