How Do Presidents Achieve Their Goals

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How and what did the presidents become so successful by making america a better place for we the people of the United States? There was many things that the presidents had to do in order to get what they wanted, so that their goals could come to life. Some presidents succeed in their goals because they had the characteristics that people of america look up to. For some presidents they had skills, loyalty, honesty, team spirit, faith and more. By these characteristics some presidents achieve their goals like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln. George Washington was born in 1732 and died in 1799 and between that time he was a General in the military, father of the country and the first president of the United States. When he was the president of america there was a war against the british and we were not doing well in the war, so what he did to keep the troops spirits up is that he sent a letter to all of them hoping that they …show more content…
Without him, there could have been a chance that this experiment would failed because there were so many issues what they should do. Adams was the one to take charge of all these issues that was popping up so he did what he needed to do. Some issues were about the power of each part of the government and the people of 1800s problems that they were facing. Now what Adams did was he thought that since the branches were worry about who had more power than the other, he and others made the check and balance. This allow each branch to how the power to check on each other to make sure that they are do what they are suppose to do. Now the people of america were getting upset because they were had pay tax on whatever is stamp of printed. A group of people and John Adams got together to help the people because it was slowly hurting the economy and the ended up pushing the stamp act away from

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