John Adams

specifically targeted any dissent against them. President John Adams, a Federalist, drafted the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798. This was caused largely by tensions with France. France…

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…

Samuel Adams- Spite of his lack of success at business (failing as a brewer and tax collector and wasting an inheritance), Adams displayed true genius in politics. He excelled at political discourse, writing and strategy. In 1765, Adams was elected to the General Court (legislature) of Massachusetts, representing the town of Boston. His abilities were recognized by his fellow legislators and he soon rose to a leadership position. Adams was offered positions by royal officials that would have…

Thomas Jefferson held to decide the issues of the early nation’s deficit and the location of its new capitol, the long-standing silence over the slavery issue, the Farewell Address-centered in a single fact that Washington was leaving office, and John Adams and Thomas Jefferson first contested presidential election of 1796. They took many steps to confront these challenges…

Canning, Kate Revolution of 1800 The Revolution of 1800 started when a decision had to be made by the United States citizens: “Who is going to be president?”. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson went head-to-head to competed for ‘America’s favorite’ during the election. Federalists were concerned that Jefferson “would give more power to the sates, dismantle the army and navy, and overturn Hamilton’s financial system”(Digital History). The Republicans felt that the Federalists showed “contempt for…

Constitution. (PBS, 2006). This case all started in the beginning of the last days of President John Adams. President Adams was the second president of the United States and when the elections of 1800 came about, he lost his presidency to Thomas Jefferson. Though Jefferson did not take office right away, it gave Adams a chance to try and make some changes before he actually left office, and those changes were that Adams had begun to appoint several people to Justices of Peace’s, one of those…

Thomas Paine 's Common Sense Contribution To American Revolution Thomas Paine (1737-1809), famous for his political radicalism ideologies, published Common Sense in 1776. Common Sense was a hugely influential pamphlet urging the end of the British rule on America. Paine can be said to have played the greatest role of convincing the American people to engage in a spirit of revolution rather than rebellion. Rebellion differs from the revolution in that its agenda is resistance to the government…

The opposing argument in the case was wanting the slaves to go back where they come from. They really didn't know where they came from until later on in the cases they went through. In the end of it they where from Sierra Leon, and that affected the outcome of the cases. The three cases they went threw was the arguments were all the same but presented in different ways and different people presented it. The first lawyer was William S. Holabird for the first case. He wanted the slaves to…

He was selected to be part of this group at the Second Continental Congress that was held in June 1776. All other members of the committee, which included John Adams and Benjamin Franklin among others, selected Thomas Jefferson to draft the document on his own (Biography). Even though Jefferson’s original work underwent several revisions, some parts remain his own which include the following: "We hold these…

Declaration of Independence although he had nominated John Adams he had denied the nomination and had said “ I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular. You are very much otherwise” (Time p 1-2). Adams had rejected the nomination and had restated that Thomas Jefferson was the opposite of him and was the right person to pick it had proved that Jefferson was the perfect guy to write one of the most important documents in U.S history. The thought that John Adams and had rejected the nomination and…