Douglas Adams

acquisition during Madison’s presidency is the Monroe Doctrine of 1823. This doctrine involved East Florida, which was taken from Spain in 1819. After James Monroe’s presidency was over, began John Quincy Adam’s term. John Quincy Adams is the son of the second president John Adams. He was president while the Era of Good Feeling was going on. The major event known as the Corrupt Bargain occurred in 1824. It involved the four democratic candidates. Just as the name suggests, it was called the…

How the American Revolution Could Have Been Avoided After the Seven Years War, the American colonists were prideful. Underneath that pride, however, was a feeling that they were not British. This new feeling of nationalism fueled their hatred for the British. When the British started holding the colonists in an iron fist, the colonists started to lose their temper and respect towards the British. The lack of representation and publishing of ridiculous acts led the colonists to feel like they did…

acts impaired the right to talk and express opinions, gave the president too much power, and made immigrants live in fear of being marked a threat and deported. It came to a point where everyone was so extremely opposed these Acts that, that John Adams had to step down, making Thomas Jefferson the new president. For these many reasons, the American public hated the Alien and Sedition Acts, which led to them being repealed, and America once again could be a safe place for immigrants to live and…

I am persuaded that the Federalist [Hamiltonian] political approach toward governing the young United States had stronger ideas versus the Republican [Jeffersonian] position, which lacked in forward thinking, suppressed free marketing and trade, sought to reduce the national army, and yet supported virtue of the common people. The American Revolution caused high war-debt issues, requiring immediate and effective attention, which in my opinion demanded a strong centralized government. Hamilton’s…

please: And in case of intolerable Oppression, Civil or Religious, to leave the Society they belong to, and enter into another” (Adams 1), was largely supported by the population in the colonies. The colonists believed they had the natural right “to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man” (Adams 2). Samuel Adams states that the colonies have the right to leave their current society and join a new one and the colonists have the…

Due to mercantilistic views and extreme financial deficits from multiple wars, Britain was scrambling to increase their revenues around the 1750s and 60s. England was in major debt from over 80 years of various conflicts and by the end of the French and Indian War, thought it made sense to have the colonies help pay for a war that was fought to protect their homes. Britain also valued the concept of mercantilism, which stated there was a fixed amount of wealth in the world and the more one…

The role of the state in the economy is a very current and debated issue. Should the government be narrowed down as an institution and an observer, or should it have an active role as a regulator and intervener? Especially the financial and bank crisis of 2008 raised the question of the government’s role within the economy – people wondered could the crisis have been avoided if we would have had stronger government intervention. Some people argue against a strong economic state, stating that too…

They were becoming a threat to our humble domicile, and President John Adams felt something must be done. Enter the Alien and Sedition Acts. These were a series of laws passed by the Federalist Congress, who in 1798, saw foreigners as a threat to American security, and signed into law by President Adams. In short, these laws included new powers to deport foreigners, as well as make it more difficult for immigrants to vote. Before…

Cain and Abel may have given some causation to the suffering of mankind, it does not explain the aspects of death, the suffering and inequality of women, or need to cultivate food. For these questions to be answered a story such as the tale of the Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden had to occur after the creation of the world, but before the beginning of civilization. In comparison the two myths may appear to answer similar questions, however, both were needed to answer the great unknown…

After the American Revolution happened, multiple changes were starting to happen in the American colonies and the area around it. For example, in the social aspect of the revolution, multiple people were thinking out of the box and wanted their own rights back, but to be more specific about this, women wanted them back the most. An example in economic changes is how many people are revolting for paper money and property after the American revolution, and it doesn’t stop here. In political…