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John Adams birth
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John Adam's lifespan
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served as a delegate from Massachusettes to the Continental Congress
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John Adams served as George Washington's Vice President
He served as the United States of America's first Vice president after finishing second in the ballots behind Washington.Because before the 12th ammendment, the Vice President was the person that got the second most amount of votes. -
September Massacre during French Revolutiuon
The September Massacres consisted of several attacks on the prisons in Paris. The massacres began on September 2, 1792 and lasted five days.They quickly and grotesquely killed all of the priests as they were trying to escape into the prison and moved on to kill other prisoners as well. During the massacres approximately 1200 prisoners died which was half of the prison population in Paris. This unbelievable massacre led to the Reign of Terror. -
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Reign of Terror
Robespierre went completely violent dramatically changing the mood of the French Revolution with the guillotine which would lead into the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Quasi War which was during Adam's presidency. -
Primary Source: John Adams inaugural adress
The speech Adams gave after the well-know Federalist and founding father was elected president by his fellow citizens. -
John Adams presidential policies
He believed in checks and balances. He believed in representative government. He believed in one nation under God. He followed the principals that our first president George Washington followed. He believed in the Navy thus led him to create America's first Navy. -
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John Adams president of the United States of America
Vice president: Thomas Jefferson
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Congress passed Alien and Sedition Acts
John Adams signed the legislation. This was an act of four important, life-changing laws. The first was that you had to be in the country for 14 years instead of 5 to become a citizen, second was that the government had the power to deport dangerous aliens, third was the wartime arrest and imprisonment and deportation of an alien subject to enemy power, and the fourth one declared that any treasonable activity was a high misdemeanor. -
Primary Source: the Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts are laws that John Adams himself signed the legislations of. -
The XYZ Affair
The XYZ affair resulted in an unofficial naval war between America and France called the Quasi War. -
Primary Source: quotation from John Adams
"But a constitution of government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." -
The Quasi War
The Quasi-War was an undeclared war fought mostly at sea between the United States and French Republic from 1798 to 1799. In the United States, the conflict was sometimes also referred to as the Franco-American War, the Undeclared War with France, the Undeclared Naval War, the Pirate Wars, or the Half-War. -
Napolean Bonaparte signed Treaty of Mortefontaine
Released U.S. from Revolutionary War alliance with France and ended the Quasi war -
Library of Congress
Adams created the Library of Congress -
John Adams Death
