HISTORY 1301 U.S. HISTORY TO 1877 WHEN SEARCHING FOR THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSON DURING THE EARLY U.S. HISTORY, GEORGE WASHINGTON COMES TO THE FOREFRONT. INCIDENTLY, DUE TO THE GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION OF THE RESEARCH, THERE WAS INSUFFICIENT INFORMATION ON PEOPLE OR EVENTS ON HISTORY BEFORE 1877. TO MY SURPRISE, INFORMATION WAS LOCATED ON JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS. JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS SUPPOSIVELY HAD A WONDERFUL LIFE AND MARRIAGE TOGETHER.
JOHN ADAMS SOMETIMES SEEMED TO BE A CONTRADICTING, RUDE AND OUTSPOKEN MAN, BUT AT OTHER TIMES PLAYFUL AND TENDER. ABIGAILS INTELLIGENT, CARING AND WITTY CHARACTER MADE UP FOR JOHNS MANNERS, THEIR MARRIAGE SIGNIFIES THE POSITION IN WHICH A WOMAN WAS INVOLVED IN THE EVOLVING OF A GREAT MAN, FOR HER IMPORTANT FAMILY CONNECTIONS PROBABLY BENEFITED HIS CAREER. JOHN ADAMS WAS BORN IN 1735, BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS TO JOHN ADAMS AND SUSANNA BOYLSTON. JOHN ADAMS WAS THE ELDEST OF THREE SONS. MR ADAMS WAS A DEACON AND FARMER (WHICH MEANT THE FAMILY WAS NOT WEALTHY).
MRS ADAMS WAS BORN FROM ONE OF THE FIRST FAMILIES OF MASSACHUSETTS (THE BOYLSTONS OWNED A LOT OF PROPERTY).
JOHN ADAMS GRADUATED FROM HARVARD IN 1755. UPON GRADUATING, HE WAS OFFERED A JOB TO TEACH IN WORCHESTER. LIKE MOST BACHELORS, JOHN HAD NO INTEREST IN CHILDREN OR THE SLIGHTEST UNDERSTANDING OF THEM. BUT LIKE ANYONE HE ADAPTED TO THE SITUATION, PROBABLY BECAUSE HE HAD TWO YOUNGER BROTHERS. JOHN MARRIED ABIGAIL SMITH IN 1764. ABIGAIL WAS THE SECOND OF FOUR CHILDREN, BORN IN 1744.
The Essay on John Adams Mccullough Book Jefferson
... and whose marriage to Abigail Adams is one of the most moving love stories in American history. David McCullough's John Adams is about his ... and accessed the full collection of letters, diaries, and family papers of all kinds, ranging from the year 1639 ... the story, as it was to history, is the relationship between Adams and Jefferson, born opposites- Adams a Massachusetts farmer's son, and Jefferson ...
ABIGAIL WAS A MINISTERS DAUGHTER ( REV WILLIAM SMITH ) FROM THE NEARBY TOWN OF WEYMOUTH. SHE KNEW OF JOHN THROUGH A COUSIN, HANNAH QUINCY. JOHN WOULD COME TO HER HOUSE WITH HER SISTERS (MARY) FINANCEE (MR CRANCH).
JOHN AND ABIGAIL BEGAN DATING ON THE DAY THE FAMILY PLANNED HER SISTERS WEDDING. JOHN THOUGHT ABIGAIL WAS THE MOST EDUCATED WOMAN HE HAD MET. ABIGAILS MOTHER, ELIZABETH QUINCY, DIDNT THINK TOO HIGHLY OF JOHN BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT LAWYERS WERE WICKED.
THEY COURTED FOR SOME TIME. MRS SMITH WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DELAY, SUPPOSIVELY SHE COULD NOT BARE TO LOSE TWO DAUGHTERS IN ONE YEAR. UPON MARRIAGE TO JOHN, ABIGAIL MOVED TO BRAINTREE. SHE HAD TO TRANSITION FROM THE POSITION OF A FIRST FAMILY OF WEYMOUTH TO THE MODEST SOCIAL STANDING OF THE ADAMS. SOMEHOW ABIGAIL FOLLOWED THE SAME STEPS AS JOHNS MOTHER (THE BOYLSTON, WAS ONE OF THE FIRST FAMILIES OF MASSACHUSETTS) WHO THOUGHT TO HAVE MARRIED BENEATH HER WHEN SHE CHOSE JOHN ADAMS. JOHN AND ABIGAIL TRAVELED A HARD ROAD IN THE BEGINNING. HE WAS A LAWYER AND FEES WERE LOW, IF PAID AT ALL.
ABIGAIL ADAPTED TO HER NEW LIFESTYLE , RATHER THAN RELYING ON HER FAMILY FOR MONEY. SHE KEPT MOST OF HER VALUABLE ITEMS HIDDEN BECAUSE OF THE SOCIAL STATUE OF THE ADAMS. HE WAS PROUD OF HAVING HIS ARGUMENTS PUBLISHED IN SEVERAL NEWSPAPERS INCLUDING THE BOSTON GAZETTE AND LONDON. HE COURAGEOUSLY PARTICIPATED IN THE DEFENSE OF THE BRITISH SOLDIERS ACCUSED OF MURDER IN THE BOSTON MASSACRE. JOHN ADAMS WAS ELECTED TO SERVE IN THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE AND WENT TO PHILADELPHIA TO THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS (THE FIRST FEDERAL LEGISLATURE OF THE THIRTEEN COLONIES).
AS A MEMBER OF THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, HE NOMINATED GEORGE WASHINGTON OF VIRGINIA TO BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. HE SECONDED THE RESOLUTION OF RICHARD HENRY LEE OF VIRGINIA THAT THESE UNITED COLONIES ARE, AND OF RIGHT OUGHT TO BE, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES.
HE SERVED ON THE COMMITTEE TO DRAFT A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. JOHN ADAMS PUT HIS CAREER ON HOLD AND DIVIDED HIS TIME IN PROMOTING THE REVOLUTIONARY CAUSE AND SERVING IN NUMEROUS CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES. BEFORE HE SELECTED A DUTY OR APPOINTMENT, HE FIRST CONSULTED WITH ABIGAIL. ADAMS SERVED WITH BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AS A JOINT COMMISSIONER TO FRANCE, BECAUSE OF THEIR LOYALTY TO THE REVOLUTIONARY CAUSE. WHENEVER HE SET OUT ON A LONG JOURNEY, ABIGAIL WAS LEFT TO RUN THE FARM. JOHN AND ABIGAIL ENDURED LONG SEPARATIONS.
The Term Paper on Abigail Adams John Women Education
... Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. Gelles, Edith B. , Portia: The World of Abigail Adams, ... that our Struggle has loosened the bands of Government every where. That Children and Apprentices were ... were more lighthearted and flirtatious.Courtship The first time John Adams met Abigail Smith, he might have been influenced ...
HE WAS MADE THE FIRST U.S. MINISTER TO THE COURT OF ST JAMES AND MOVED WITH HIS FAMILY TO ENGLAND. ABIGAIL WAS NOW BACK INTO THE LIGHT WITH HER MANY DINNER PARTIES. MANY TIMES JOHN WOULD NOT RECEIVE HIS ENTIRE PAY AND SHE WOULD HAVE TO STRETCH THE BUDGET TO ALLOW ENTERTAINING. AS THE MINISTER TO GREAT BRITAIN HE WROTE HIS DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (1787).
HE EXPRESSED HIMSELF STRONGLY, WHAT SOME PEOPLE CONSIDERED TO BE ARISTOCRATIC LIVES AS IN THE SUGGESTION THAT THE RICH, THE WELL BORN AND THE ABLE WOULD COME TO COMPOSE THE UPPER CHAMBER OF A REPUBLIC IF IT WERE TO SURVIVE. THE PUBLICATION WAS FILLED WITH DIFFERENT EXTRACTS AND MATERIALS FROM VARIOUS WRITERS ON GOVERNMENT AND HUMAN NATURE.
THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE DEFENCE ARRIVED IN AMERICA IN TIME TO INFLUENCE THE MEMBERS OF THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION. MANY ELECTORS WERE OFFENDED BECAUSE OF HIS ARISTOCRATIC POINT OF VIEW AND DID NOT VOTE FOR HIM IN THE PRESIDENTAL ELECTIONS OF 1789. JOHN ADAMS BECAME THE SECOND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1796. ADAMS WON THE ELECTION WITH ONLY A FEW MORE ELECTORAL VOTES THAN THOMAS JEFFERSON, PARTIALLY BECAUSE HIS PARTY (FEDERALISTS) WAS SPLIT AND PART OF THE VOTES WENT TO ANOTHER FEDERALIST. AT THIS TIME THERE WERE TWO POLITICAL GROUPS, THE FEDERALISTS THE CONSERVATIVE FACTION LED BY ALEXANDER HAMILTON, WHICH ADVOCATED A STRONG, CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT AND FAVORED INDUSTRY, LANDOWNERS AND MERCHANTS, AND THE DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICANS, LED BY THOMAS JEFFERSON, WHO EMPHASIZED PERSONAL LIBERTY AND LIMITED POWERS FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. ALTHOUGH ADAMS WAS CONSERVATIVE HE WAS A LEADING FEDERALIST.
ADAMS BEGUN HIS TERM AS PRESIDENT WITH DEEP SUSPICIOUS NOT ONLY ABOUT JEFFERSON, BUT HAMILTON AND HIS FOLLOWERS AS WELL. HE STILL MAINTAINED THE CABINET THE WAY WASHINGTON HAD IT, EVEN THOUGH MOST OF THE MEMBERS RELIED ON THE ADVICE OF HAMILTON. ADAMS ADMINISTRATION HAD CRISIS TO CRISIS, STARTING WITH THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. HE WAS DISLIKED BECAUSE OF HIS VIEW ON FRANCE. HE WAS SEEN AS THE ENEMY BECAUSE HE REOPENED NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRANCE INSTEAD OF WAR. ADAMS WAS DEFEATED FOR REELECTION BY THOMAS JEFFERSON, WITH AN ENDORSEMENT FROM HAMILTON (RETALIATION.
The Essay on Adams John Quincy
The author believes that John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States of America, is not only a major political figure in the forming of the United States as we now know it, but also a just and moral Christian man. John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767, in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts. He was the second of four children--a girl and three boys. From infancy John saw ...
AGAINST ADAMS FOR HIS POLICY TOWARDS FRANCE).
ADAMS ATTEMPTED TO KEEP FEDERALISTS IN THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM BY APPOINTING HIS SECRETARY OF STATE, JOHN MARSHALL, AS CHIEF JUSTICE. HE DEPARTED HIS OFFICE OF PRESIDENCY MARCH 3, 1801. JOHN ADAMS WAS AN ORATOR, LAWYER, REPRESENTATIVE, U.S MINISTER, COMMISSIONED, LEADER, AMBASSADOR, AND SO MANY OTHER IMPORTANT MODELS. ABIGAIL NURTURED HIM AND NEVER LEFT HIS SIDE WHEN TIMES WERE HARD. JOHN ADAMS WAS A REMARKABLE MAN, MOSTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
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ABIGAIL SMITH. JANET WHITNEY, 1947. ATLANTIC-LITTLE, BROWN BOOKS, BOSTON 1948. 2. JOHN ADAMS AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN, 1949. ATLANTIC-LITTLE, BROWN BOOKS, BOSTON 1951.
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