John Adams

Most People know John Adams as the second president of The United States of America. But he should be known for much more than that. Adams was a lawyer, rebellion leader, and of course, a present. During the American Revolution, he was one of the first to want independence. Once he and several others went for independence, they worked together to create the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. John Adams was respected and was looked up to. He was a courageous man as well as a leader…

and Jefferson was third, so someone had to come between the two men, another great, respected man of the time. That was John Adams, who is commonly overlooked, and is not as revered as the former two men are. Yes, John Adams did great things with his own reliability and style, but they aren 't as well remembered…

Our sixth president, John Quincy Adams was born on July 11 in the year 1767, in Braintree, Massachusetts now known as Quincy, Massachusetts. John never went to school; he was tutored by his cousin James Thax, and by fathers lawyer, Nathan Rice. Adams was named after his mothers’s grandfather, Colonel John Adams, after whom Quincy, Massachusetts, was also named. At the age 12, in 1779, John Quincy Adams started to write a diary, which he continued until just before he died in 1848. Most of his…

and the very first vice president under George Washington, John Adams had framed himself as a good leader with little unachieved events. Born in 1735 Adams lived a successful career during his educational years. Receiving a scholarship to harvard just at the age of 16. He then studied to be a lawyer for 5 years. Adams had many accomplishments throughout his life. While a congressman he was able to accompany many signings to pass laws. Adams was also able to sign the Declaration of Independence…

John Adams Who is John Adams? John Adams was born on October 30th, 1735, into a family that was not wealthy. He had earned a scholarship to attend Harvard, and decided to study law. Two years after he graduated Harvard, he was admitted into the bar. John Adams soon later became the 2nd President of the United States, but before he became the 2nd President, he was the first vice president of the United States, next to George Washington. During his presidency, he wasn’t a popular president so he…

October 25,1764: Abigail Smith marries John Adam Richard Cranch, a friend of Abigail’s, starting bringing John Adams with him to the family library. This is how Abigail met John, at first they did not get along quite well. He thought Abigail was a wit, who lacked in tenderness and Abigail thought he spoke too much. As his vistas became frequent, they both slowly began to find something attractive about each other. After John graduated Harvard in 1755, he decided to study law. At twenty-six…

John Adams Born in Quincy, Massachusetts on October 30, 1735, John Adams was the son of John Adams Sr. and Susanna Boylston Adams. John Adams Sr. was a farmer, but also participated in the local government in Quincy. In 1751, at the young age of 16, the younger John Adams received a scholarship to Harvard and graduated four years later and began studying law at the practice of a local lawyer. Then, in 1758, Adams received his master’s degree from Harvard and became a lawyer. Like other…

regarding Abigail and John Adams equitable love serves as a subtle reminder of the vivid account that was President John Adam’s life. In conjunction with written records of “twitches, traumas, throbbings, and tribulations”, a deep, passionate love of philosophy is reflected in Joseph J. Ellis’s impactful novel First Family: Abigail and John Adams, as he is capable of efficiently recounting the numerous stories of John Adams’ life, and furthermore, argue these stories as Adams’ founding beliefs…

After watching “John Adams”, it has become much easier to identify the similarities and differences between George Washington and John Adams and their opinions on foreign affairs. It is now evident that Washington strove to remain neutral amidst the chaos and fighting between Britain and France. He felt that the United States was too young and fragile to become involved in foreign wars. Therefore, when Washington was asked to choose a side to support, he simply decided to stay neutral to prevent…

disinterestedness. Gordon Wood argues in his historical work, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, that the genuine founders of America employed the qualities of virtuousness and disinterestedness. Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams all entertain these qualities described by Wood. In his thesis, Wood describes the ideal founders, “Gentlemen, who constituted about 5 to 10 percent of the society, were all those at the top of the social hierarchy who were wealthy…