John Adams

Neutrality Acts, the British attacked American vessels in the French West Indies. They seized 300 merchant ships and hundreds of seamen, some of whom they employed on their own ships and others they incarcerated in dungeons. In 1794 Washington sent John Jay to London to treat with the British about their violations of America’s neutral rights but, due in part to Hamilton selling out Jay’s bargaining tactics to the Britons, he instead ended up binding American merchants to pre-Revolutionary…

I watched the Founding Fathers documentary, episode 3. The subject of this film is the founding fathers such as, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Ben Franklin, and John Adams and how they all became ‘founding fathers’ of the United States. The film begins by discussing Thomas Jefferson and how much he cared about dependence, how he contributed to getting independence, his actions, and his more personal ways of life. The documentary eventually transitions into discussing…

The American political culture contains various concepts and values. Indeed, Americans share the same perspectives, the support in the ideals of individualism and liberty. The idea of individualism encompasses the idea that we as Americans have rights. For instance, we can make independent decisions, and we are responsible for our lives. We define liberty as having the freedom to do as we please with limits in the interest of having a stable society. It has been twenty-five years after one of…

In this difficult, but special country of ours, there has been many great presidents, but there are a few who truly left their mark on this world and one of those is Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson made many accomplishments for himself and this country many years ago by creating the Declaration of Independence and leading our country as third president of the United States. Throughout his life Jefferson will become many things such as a plantation owner, philosopher, and public official. Jefferson…

The “odd couple” were Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. They were considered the “odd couple” because they had very different political views and they were also very different in the way they looked. Adams was short, outspoken and assertive man whereas Jefferson was tall, quiet and unobtrusive man. Jefferson was a Virginian aristocrat from a very wealthy family who received classical education from College of William and Mary and later Harvard whereas Adams was from a religious, conservative,…

book “The Character of Thomas Jefferson”. He also won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for History on Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. Ellis portrays the American founders Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Adams and George Washington as the great…

The United States of America in the Post-American Revolution was overflowing with joy, fear and cautious optimism. The world had held its breath as it watched thirteen small imperial colonies succeed in defeating the British Empire and wining its long sought after independence. Unfortunately, the defeat of Britain was only the beginning of the woes America would face. It would come down to two prominent political intellectuals of the time, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, to take it upon…

Thomas Jefferson This report is about Thomas Jefferson and I will be giving you information on his past before he was president I will give you fun facts and I will tell you his hobbies. Thomas Jefferson was a good president and a good person. Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743. Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826 at the age of 83. One of Thomas Jefferson’s memories is when he was 3 and he went on a 50 mile horseback ride with his father’s slave and his family to the Virginia…

When the United States’ Constitution was written in 1787, the country was very different than it is today. In 1787 a much smaller percentage of people were educated, there were way fewer people living in the country, and people were very concerned with the president being elected by “smart” people. Considering all of that, the electoral college was a great system for electing the president of the United States at that time. However, in modern times, a direct presidential election would be better…

The American Revolution and how it Affected Slaves and Women The American Revolution, the revolution in which the thirteen colonies broke free from Great Britain's rule and created The United states of America. Little do you know the American Revolution marked a change in the way women were perceived as and affected slaves lives with a hope of freedom. In the 1700’s the women's traditional role was to cook, clean, bare children and take care of the house. That came to a change in 1765, the…