John Adams
By Jace and Brielle
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Beginnings, failures, accomplishments, and weaknesses.
John Adams was born in 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts. In his early years be lived on a farm with his family. He was a Massachusetts lawyer and was the lawyer that defended the british soldiers from the people of the USA, and successfully won to protect the british soldiers. John Adams and Abigail Smith got married on October 25, 1764, And had 6 kids, but only 4 of them made it to adulthood. In 1789 John adams became vice president and was the 1st vice president. In 1796 he became the 2nd president of the United States. While he was president, the XYZ affair happened and the people did not like how the french handled it and they got angry with the french and wanted war. The alien and sedition acts happened and the people thought that it violated their rights. He was the first single term president and died on July 4th, 1826, the same day as Thomas Jefferson.
His wife, Abigail Smith
Abigail Smith was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, on November 11, 1744.On October 25, 1764, Abigail married John Adams, and the newlywed couple moved into his family home in Braintree, Massachusetts and they had six children together but only four reached adulthood. John’s law career, service in the Continental Congress, and diplomatic missions abroad kept him away for long periods of time. As a result, many of the daily and household responsibilities were Abigail’s. She raised, educated their children, oversaw the Adams farm and its tenants, and managed the family’s finances and investments.
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quotes and writes
"When it was first perceived; in early times that no middle course for America remained; between unlimited submission to a foreign Legislature, and a total Independence of its claims: men of reflection, were less apprehensive of danger, from the formidable Power of fleets and Armies they must determine to resist; than from those Contests and dissension, which would certainly arise, concerning the forms of Government to be instituted, over the whole and over the parts of this extensive Country." John Adam's speech
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