John Quincy Adams was one of the greatest secretaries of state that the United States ever had. He arranges a deal with England for the Oregon country and Spain for Florida was one his biggest comes through for the United States gaining more territory.in 1765 john Adams accused the stamp tax in resolution written for the Braintree town meeting. When they were reprinted around the colony his reputation as an opponent of English arrogance began to grow. Those in Boston who led the opposition to English taxes to begin to bring him more actively into their campaigns. He relocated to Boston and won a chair in Massachusetts general court. He became in effect the local antigovernment party’s lawyer writing some of its more significant public papers
