John Adams

summed up as “unity at home and independence abroad” (Ellis, 129). There were supporters and dissenters of this notion alike. But Washington’s main goal was to avoid the infant nation going to war. In attempt to remain neutral, Washington worked with John Jay to draft Jay’s Treaty. The treaty was essentially all in England’s favor, but Washington’s underlying reasoning of creating it was to hopefully gain England’s fleets for naval defense. The terms of the treaty included recognizing “England’s…

Banning points out that Adam saw Thomas Jefferson’s as a result of abandoning his principles (Madaras 123). According to Banning, Thomas Jefferson’s instances of acquiescing to the Federalists or the Democratic-Republicans were done in order to accrue influence and led to the…

States, John Adams, signed them into law. During this time, a war with France was a near possibility, and this was a way to make sure that peace and stability was kept in the United States. The Alien Act allowed the president to remove any alien from the United States if they were considered dangerous. In addition, the Naturalization Act extended the amount of time it took for alien residencies to become a United States citizen from five years to fourteen years. Under the Sedition Act, Adams had…

drafted "A Declaration of Rights and Sentiments" to summarize their concern and modeled their text after the Declaration of Independence, adding "and women" to the phrase "all men are created equal." A very famous contemporary was Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams. She was one of the first women who tried fighting for women's rights by writing letters to her husband requesting to "remember the ladies" in drafting the country's founding documents and laws. She also wrote that they should not "put…

1. The Boston Massacre was a result of American colonialists who harassed and intimidated the British military in regards to the Stamp Act. This act violated the rights of the American colonialists because it was passed without their consent and did not benefit them. Several people were injured and killed in this attack between the British military and the colonialists. Many would say that this was propaganda to promote opposition against the British rule. The Boston Tea Party was also a very…

Few events loom as large within the consciousness of the United States as the American Revolution. It has been endless debated and mythologized from the moment of its occurrence. By the same token, here are few topics as studied as the American Revolution. This seminal event has been examined and deliberated by generations of historians to the point there are few historiographies as extensive as that of the American Revolution. This has led to endless biographies of the founding fathers,…

Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello begins with the architecture of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop home in Charlottesville, Virginia. The book describes the story of Monticello architecture, an inside look at the house, the furnishings, the gardens and the plantation. The authors of this book are William L. Beiswanger, Peter J. Hatch, Lucia C. Stanton, Susan R. Stein. These four members are part of Monticello’s Scholarly staff. They are all experts in their disciplines, have published a…

Gordon S. Wood is an eminent historian who got his masters and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University in 1959 and 1964 respectively. He is a professor of History Emeritus at Brown University and also an Alva O. Way University Professor (Brown Affiliations). Wood has worked wholeheartedly towards combining the everchanging social and political ideas and how they are currently being projected from the early American Republic. The theme of his writing is mostly guided by the idea that the revolution…

The two primary sources they were comparing was Thomas Paine’s in excerpts of his pamphlet and an excerpt from John Adams autobiography responding to Paine’s pamphlet. I was very happy when the next day 17 out of the 23 students in the class handed it in. A few of these students were just absent so they didn’t get the assignment and about 3 just decided not to do it…

in the society. Before the Revolution, women were the “behind the scenes” member of the family, but with the dawn of the revolution at hand, women stepped up to more prominent and political roles in their family. In particular, women like Abigail Adams and Lucy Knox were the driving force for women’s rights progression, to project her ideals to the general public. According to Molly Wallace, in her valedictory speech (Document J), women should not be denied the most general rights that people…