Question

4. What steps do you believe Samuel Adams and Thomas Hutchinson took toward becoming individuals and which steps ultimately made them such important historical figures?

Answer 1

For one thing, simply by existing, they were already individuals!!

But to answer the second part of your question, you'd need to read really good biographies of each and draw your own conclusions about how each one became "important historical figures." (You might also need to define "important" at some point.)

http://www.google.com/search?q=samuel+adams+biography&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

http://www.google.com/search?q=Thomas+Hutchinson&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a