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what do you know about john Addams? everything pls

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nothing

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serious answers only

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2nd us president

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This article is about the second president of the United States. For his son, the sixth president, see John Quincy Adams. For other uses, see John Adams (disambiguation).
John Adams
Stout elderly man in his 60s with long white hair, facing partway leftward
2nd President of the United States
In office
March 4, 1797 – March 4, 1801
Vice President Thomas Jefferson
Preceded by George Washington
Succeeded by Thomas Jefferson
1st Vice President of the United States
In office
April 21, 1789 – March 4, 1797
President George Washington
Preceded by Office established
Succeeded by Thomas Jefferson
1st United States Minister to the United Kingdom
In office
April 1, 1785 – February 20, 1788[1]
Appointed by Congress of the Confederation
Preceded by Office established
Succeeded by Thomas Pinckney
1st United States Minister to the Netherlands
In office
April 19, 1782 – March 30, 1788[1]
Appointed by Congress of the Confederation
Preceded by Office established
Succeeded by Charles W. F. Dumas (acting)
United States Envoy to France
In office
November 28, 1777[2][3] – March 8, 1779
Preceded by Silas Deane
Succeeded by Benjamin Franklin
Delegate to the Continental Congress
from Massachusetts
In office
September 5, 1774 – November 28, 1777
Preceded by Office established
Succeeded by Samuel Holten
Personal details
Born October 30, 1735
Braintree, Massachusetts Bay, British America (now Quincy)
Died July 4, 1826 (aged 90)
Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.
Resting place United First Parish Church
Political party
Pro-Administration (before 1795)
Federalist (1795 – c. 1808)
Democratic-Republican (c. 1808 – 1826)[4]
Spouse(s) Abigail Smith
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​(m. 1764; died 1818)​
Children 6, including Abigail, John Quincy, Charles, Thomas
Parents
John Adams Sr.
Susanna Boylston
Education Harvard University (AB, AM)
Signature Cursive signature in ink
John Adams (October 30, 1735[a] – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States, from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain, and he served as the first vice president of the United States. Adams was a dedicated diarist and regularly corresponded with many important figures in early American history, including his wife and adviser Abigail Adams (Quincy political family) and Thomas Jefferson.

A lawyer and political activist prior to the revolution, Adams was devoted to the right to counsel and presumption of innocence. He defied anti-British sentiment and successfully defended British soldiers against murder charges arising from the Boston Massacre. Adams was a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress and became a principal leader of the Revolution. He assisted in drafting the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and was its foremost advocate in Congress. As a diplomat in Europe, he helped negotiate the peace treaty with Great Britain and secured vital governmental loans. Adams was the primary author of the Massachusetts Constitution in 1780, which influenced the United States' own constitution, as did his earlier Thoughts on Government.

Adams was elected to two terms as vice president under President George Washington and was elected as the United States' second president in 1796. He was the only president elected under the banner of the Federalist Party. During his single term, Adams encountered fierce criticism from the Jeffersonian Republicans and from some in his own Federalist Party, led by his rival Alexander Hamilton. Adams signed the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts and built up the Army and Navy in the undeclared "Quasi-War" with France. The main accomplishment of his presidency was a peaceful resolution of this conflict in the face of public anger and Hamilton's opposition. During his term, he became the first president to reside in the executive mansion now known as the White House.

In his bid for reelection, opposition from Federalists and accusations of despotism from Republicans led to Adams's loss to his former friend Thomas Jefferson, and he retired to Massachusetts. He eventually resumed his friendship with Jefferson by initiating a correspondence that lasted fourteen years. He and his wife generated a family of politicians, diplomats, and historians now referred to as the Adams political family, which includes their son John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States. John Adams died on July 4, 1826 – the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence – hours after Jefferson's death. Surveys of historians and scholars have favorably ranked his administration.


Contents
1 Early life and education
1.1 Childhood
1.2 College education and adulthood
1.3 Law practice and marriage
2 Career before the Revolution
2.1 Opponent of Stamp Act
2.2 Counsel for the British: Boston Massacre
2.3 Becoming a revolutionary
3 Continental Congress
3.1 Member of Continental Congress
3.2 Independence
4 Diplomatic service
4.1 Commissioner to France
4.2 Ambassador to the Dutch Republic
4.3 Treaty of Paris
4.4 Ambassador to Great Britain
5 Vice presidency, 1789–1797
5.1 Election
5.2 Tenure
5.3 Election of 1796
6 Presidency, 1797–1801
6.1 Inauguration
6.2 Failed peace commission and XYZ affair
6.3 Alien and Sedition Acts
6.4 Quasi-War
6.5 Fries's Rebellion
6.6 Federalist divisions and peace
6.7 Establishing government institutions and move to Washington
6.8 Election of 1800
6.9 Cabinet
6.10 Judicial appointments
7 Retirement
7.1 Initial years
7.2 Correspondence with Jefferson
7.3 Last years and death
8 Political writings
8.1 Thoughts on Government
8.2 Massachusetts Constitution
8.3 Defence of the Constitutions
9 Political philosophy and views
9.1 Slavery
9.2 Accusations of monarchism
9.3 Religious views
10 Legacy
10.1 Historical reputation
10.2 In memoriam
11 Notes
12 References
12.1 Sources
13 Further reading
14 External links
Early life and education
Childhood
Small wooden house with red-brick chimney in the middle
Adams's birthplace now in Quincy, Massachusetts
John Adams was born on October 30, 1735 (October 19, 1735, Old Style, Julian calendar), to John Adams Sr. and Susanna Boylston. He had two younger brothers, Peter (1738-1823) and Elihu (1741-1775).[5] Adams was born on the family farm in Braintree, Massachusetts.[6] His mother was from a leading medical family of present-day Brookline, Massachusetts. His father was a deacon in the Congregational Church, a farmer, a cordwainer, and a lieutenant in the militia.[7] John Sr. served as a selectman (town councilman) and supervised the building of schools and roads. Adams often praised his father and recalled their close relationship.[8] Adams's great-great-grandfather Henry Adams immigrated to Massachusetts from Braintree, Essex, England, around 1638.[7] Though raised in modest surroundings, Adams felt pressured to live up to his heritage. His was a family of Puritans, who profoundly affected their region's culture, laws, and traditions. By the time of John Adams's birth, Puritan tenets such as predestination had waned and many of their severe practices moderated, but Adams still "considered them bearers of freedom, a cause that still had a holy urgency."[9] Adams recalled that his parents "held every Species of Libertinage in ... Contempt and horror," and detailed "pictures of disgrace, or baseness and of Ruin" resulting from any debauchery.[5] Adams later noted that "As a child I enjoyed perhaps the greatest of blessings that can be bestowed upon men – that of a mother who was anxious and capable to form the characters of her children."[10] Adams, as the eldest child, was compelled to obtain a formal education. This began at age six at a dame school for boys and girls, conducted at a teacher's home, and was centered upon The New England Primer. Shortly thereafter, Adams attended Braintree Latin School under Joseph Cleverly, where studies included Latin, rhetoric, logic, and arithmetic. Adams's early education included incidents of truancy, a dislike for his master, and a desire to become a farmer. All discussion on the matter ended with his father's command that he remain in school: "You shall comply with my desires." Deacon Adams hired a new schoolmaster named Joseph Marsh, and his son responded positively.[11] College education and adulthood At age sixteen, Adams entered Harvard College in 1751, studying under Joseph Mayhew.[12] As an adult, Adams was a keen scholar, studying the works of ancient writers such as Thucydides, Plato, Cicero, and Tacitus in their original languages.[13] Though his father expected him to be a minister,[14] after his 1755 graduation with an A.B. degree, he taught school temporarily in Worcester, while pondering his permanent vocation. In the next four years, he began to seek prestige, craving "Honour or Reputation" and "more defference from [his] fellows", and was determined to be "a great Man." He decided to become a lawyer to further those ends, writing his father that he found among lawyers "noble and gallant achievements" but, among the clergy, the "pretended sanctity of some absolute dunces." His aspirations conflicted with his Puritanism, though, prompting reservations about his self-described "trumpery" and failure to share the "happiness of [his] fellow men."[15] As the French and Indian War began in 1754, Adams, aged nineteen, began to struggle with his responsibility in the conflict as many of his contemporaries joined the war for money. Adams later said, "I longed more ardently to be a Soldier than I ever did to be a Lawyer," recognizing that he was the first of his family to "[degenerate] from the virtues of the house so far as not to have been an officer in the militia."[16] Law practice and marriage Woman with deep black hair and dark eyes wearing a blue and pink dress Abigail Smith Adams – 1766 Portrait by Benjamin Blyth Man in dark gray clothing with dark hair John Adams – 1766 Portrait also by Blyth In 1756, Adams began reading law under James Putnam, a leading lawyer in Worcester.[17] In 1758, he earned an A.M. from Harvard,[18] and in 1759 was admitted to the bar.[19] He developed an early habit of writing about events and impressions of men in his diary; this included James Otis Jr.'s 1761 legal argument challenging the legality of British writs of assistance, allowing the British to search a home without notice or reason. Otis's argument inspired Adams to the cause of the American colonies.[20]

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ther you go ENJOY

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Cheatery

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TYSM

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John Adams was in the Massachusettes delegation in 1774, he also was sent to France to negotiate a way for France to loan them money for the war. He also went to England to meet with King George after George lost the war. He was elected to be Geroge Washington's vice president, also he was the second president after George Washington.

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tysm

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Adams defended British soldiers after the Boston Massacre. ...
He was a great pen pal. ...
He was the principal author of the oldest written constitution still in use in the world. ...
He was the first president to live in the White House.

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He and Thomas Jefferson both died on the same day, on fourth of July

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whoa

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he was the lawyer for the British soldiers for the Boston Massacre, he won that case

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ty

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ok and then ... John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts. His father, John Adams Sr., was a farmer, a Congregationalist deacon and a town councilman, and was a direct descendant of Henry Adams, a Puritan who emigrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. His mother, Susanna Boylston Adams, was a descendant of the Boylstons of Brookline, a prominent family in colonial Massachusetts.

At age 16, Adams earned a scholarship to attend Harvard University. After graduating in 1755, at age 20, Adams studied law in the office of James Putnam, a prominent lawyer, despite his father's wish for him to enter the ministry. In 1758, he earned a master's degree from Harvard and was admitted to the bar.

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he was a verry smart

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@JAIDENGYMNASTIC you cheating I am stating facts that I already know dude.

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i knw i was messing around

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oh srry

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lol

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lol

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john Quincy Adams, his so became the president. They both hated being the prez.

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son*

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Adams began his education in a common school in Braintree. He secured a scholarship to Harvard and graduated at the age of 20.

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He died on July 4, 1826 (incidentally, within hours of the death of Thomas Jefferson

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isnt that so weird

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yeah

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yeah his last words were jeferson still lives.

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though jefferson was actually dead.

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abigail adams, his wife, dies befoe him.