It is believed Sam Adams had a role in the Boston Tea Party

Adams assisted in organizing Bostonians to obstruct tea shipments after the British Parliament approved the Tea Act in 1773, which tried to force the colonists to purchase their tea from the British East India Company. In what became known as the Boston Tea Party, a small group of protesters went even further by dressed as Indian warriors and boarding numerous British ships to dump their tea. Adams, who may have helped organize the demonstration, later wrote that the demonstrators "had acted upon pure and upright principle."

The British government eventually had enough of Adams' agitation. A band of soldiers under the command of British General Thomas Gage traveled from Boston to Lexington in 1775 with the goal of apprehending John Hancock, another radical colonial, and Adams. However, as American spies learned of the scheme, militiamen from that country engaged the British on Lexington Common. The subsequent armed conflicts that started the Revolutionary War were the Battles of Lexington and Concord. This is one of the interesting facts about Samuel Adams.