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Born on July 11, 1767, and died on February 23, 1848. He was born in Braintree, Massachusetts. He has a wife named Louisa Adams and had four children: George Washington Adams, Charles Francis Adams Sr., John Adams II, Louisa Catherine Adams. He went to Harvard College and Harvard Law University as well as Leiden University.

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His beginning in politics started with being appointed as U.S. Minister of the Netherlands. Before becoming a president, was a minister in England, then became a senator as well as secretary of state.

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John was over the age of 35, a natural born citizen of the U.S. and lived in the U.S. for over 14 years when he ran for president. He met all the formal qualifications. He met the informal qualifications of not being a radical and having political experience. However, when it came to the funding, he did not need a sponsor financially.

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How long was his term and who was behind him?

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How long was his term and who was behind him?

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John served 1 term (4 years) from 1825 to 1829. The 25th amendment was not enacted until 1965 so the line of succession did not fully exist. The next person in the line of succession was John C. Calhoun and was followed by John W. Taylor, John Gaillard, and Henry Clay.

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John proposed many ideas for the construction of canals. One conal that he helped construct was the Erie Canal in 1825. It was a canal that connected the Erie Lake to New York. He always pushed for better transportation methods in America.
John also was very concerned with the standardization of the military. He helped the chambers come to a joint resolution about creating manuals to help standardize the military.
In 1826, John played a big role in taking care of the war debts owed to Britain in the war of 1812. John finalized a settlement with the British over said debts.
Not so long later, he decided to close the ports to Britain over their unfair tariffs and helped get America’s economy back on track.
Lastly, he tried to create a canal in Nicaragua to help benefit the transport of goods through South America. However, the instability of the environment around the canal caused the project to fail. (Erie Canal below)

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How did he become president, and what was his party?

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How did he become president, and what was his party?

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John belonged to the Federalists and Republican-Democratic Party. However, the Federalist party is no longer prominent in Congress today, and the Republican-Democratic Party has split into two different parties that now control congress. Has political party choice had a big part in him winning the election, however, because no candidate clearly won the electoral vote, the vote then had to move to the House of representatives. This is when the House elected him as the sixth president of the U.S. (Federalist Political Party Symbol below)

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Who was the Vice President, and how did elections work back then?

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Who was the Vice President, and how did elections work back then?

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The Vice President was John C. Calhoun. Back then, instead of the runner up becoming vice president, someone had to run for vice president as a running mate. This, in turn, calls for two elections. The electoral college had a bigger role in this than it did back then because the electoral college was trusted more back then than they are today. The final count was 84 at the time, however, further down the election, the House of Representative had to choose the president and they ended up choosing John Quincy Adams.

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At the time of John’s presidency, only 7 executive agencies existed. They consisted of the departments of war, army, air force, navy, post office, state, and treasury. Also at the time, independent agencies did not exist. Now there are 137 independent executive agencies and there are over 430 agencies, departments, and sub-agencies. Most agencies were formed for protection with the exception of the department of state, treasury, and post office. Department of state was for leading foreign affairs, department of treasury was for taking care of the nation’s money, and the department of post office was for… mailing.
The cabinet was responsible for helping the president in making national decisions and advising him on what to do as well as presenting bills that came from their chambers. Henry Clay was the secretary of state, Richard Bush was the Secretary of the Treasury, James Barbour was the Sectary of war, William Wirt was the Attorney General, and Samuel L. Southard was the Secretary of the Navy.

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How did John Quincy Adams interact with foreign countries?

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How did John Quincy Adams interact with foreign countries?

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Overall John’s foreign policy was mixed. He did increase trade with many countries like Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, but he also unable to respond to the British seizure of American property directly after the war of 1812. There were not many conflicts during the presidency but the most known one surrounds the war of 1812 and the debts we owed Britain. Because of these debts, John decided to make a settlement with to pay off the debts with Britain. Not only did he create the settlement, but he also helped the trading issue between the U.S. and the British West Indies.

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After his presidency, he tried to run again but lost to Andrew Jackson, but soon after joined the House of Representatives and served as a leading congressman for the rest of life. He died in 1848 after suffering a deathly stroke. He is mostly known for being an abolitionist and was called many nicknames. He was called “Old Man Eloquent” after serving 17 years in the House of Reps. His most remembered political action was when he was the secretary of state in 1817, which is when he negotiated the Adams-Onis Treaty, bringing Florida to be a part of the United States.

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Was he a successful president? (America's point of view)

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Was he a successful president? (America's point of view)

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To many people, John Quincy Adams' presidency was not a successful one. One reason behind this is that even though he had many ideas for the improvement of transportation and science, he could not convince Congress to go through with many of his ideas. John also did not make much an effort to become more popular with the country. He did not get many of the electoral votes, and narrowly lost to Andrew Jackson, and because of that, he was deemed unsuccessful.

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Was he a successful president? (My point of view)

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Was he a successful president? (My point of view)

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In my opinion, John Quincy Adams was neither successful or unsuccessful.
He did not fail America and bring us into debt, but he did not do many beneficial things as a president either. He also was not able to carry out many of the plans that he had set out as president either. John managed to keep the country safe but did not improve the country much as a president and because of this, I believe he was neither successful or unsuccessful.

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https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/john-quincy-adams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1824_United_States_presidential_election
https://learnodo-newtonic.com/john-quincy-adams-accomplishments
https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1415.html
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-electoral-college-why-we-use-it-why-it-matters-18331