John Adams

scarce, you went without instead of paying high prices for items of luxury. “Every article here in the West India way is very scarce and dear. “In six weeks we shall not be able to purchase any article of any kind” (founders), Abigail is writing to John Adams on July 16, 1775 and telling him about how scarce everything is and about the war ships in the harbor firing upon the soldiers. “They came of with a hot and continued to fire upon them, the bullets flying in every direction and the Men of…

that comes with the transfer of power and the responsibilities that come with the job. The transfer of power has occur in one way or another since 1797, when the first president of the United States, George Washington handed over his presidency to John Adams. However, the first peaceful transfer of power occur in the election of 1800 between Thomas Jefferson…

foreign policy, while John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison strayed away from Washington’s pristine ideas to varying degrees of success. Washington’s Farewell Address talked about how citizens need to stay loyal to the country, and not the president or parties; how political parties split a country, especially regional ones; and to always assume all countries mean well, but don’t keep a permanent…

It emphasized independence of the self and also what is natural to man. An epitome of the ideology of Enlightenment can be seen from John Locke’s Two Treatise on Civil Government. This writing includes the statement that, “the natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of…

In 1787, the Continental Congress was brought together in the Philadelphia Convention to revise the Articles of Confederation. The Constitution was written and since people had different views on how to interpret it, two political parties were eventually formed: The federalists and the Democratic-Republicans. The main reason for the rise of political parties during the 1790s was because each of the parties favored different political and economical reforms needed as a new, developing country.…

intention to harm them nor was he the only President who believed removal was the only policy to protect Indians from annihilation. During the presidency of John Quincy Adams, it was apparent to the federal government that a policy of removal would have to be enacted to protect the Indians from impending attacks of the states. However, Adams was unable to…

According to the musical Hamilton, in his early life he was an orphan. Alexander Hamilton was born out of wedlock in the West Indies. His mother died and his father abandoned him. Hamilton did whatever he could to get where he wanted to go no matter the cost of consequences. He grew up very poor from the West Indies and married into a family with money to a woman named Elizabeth Schuyler. He had a son named Phillip that he was not a part of his life because he was fighting the war in America.…

Scene 1 *Scene starts off in a museum with Dominic and Kyle as tourists and Mason as the tour guide, Tommy is posed as a picture of Thomas Jefferson* (Mason)Tour Guide:The document, The delegate and the man who changed our nation, Thomas Jefferson,Thomas Jefferson was born just outside of Charlottesville, Virginia in April 13th, 1743. Jefferson was born into one of the most prominent families of the Virginia planter elite. As a child Jefferson loved playing in the woods, learning the violin,…

The politically and economically effective XYZ Affair took place during 1797 and 1798 during John Adams’ presidency, critical in the commencing of an unofficial naval war between America and France. After America and England instituted Jay’s Treaty to pay off the massive pre-revolutionary debts gained by the Southern Americas, aiding in the survival of their tough economy and America would favor trade with Britain over other foreign countries. By instituting the Treaty, the Americans angered…

The history of the United States is a complex one, filled with unique characters, remarkable feats of failures and successes, and a desire for freedom since the beginning of its existence. The time after the American Revolution, the beginning of a free nation and its independence, is beautifully captured through the collaboration of stories known as Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph Ellis. While Ellis didn’t have a distinct one-sentence thesis, he most definitely had an…