A Historical Timeline of John Quincy Adams (The First Vice President of the United States, The Second President of the United States, The Colossus of Independence, His Rotundity, Old Sink or Swim, Bonny Johnny, Atlas of Independence, etc.)
By divah00
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The second leader of the United States of America is born to John and Susanna Adams in Braintree, Massachusetts (now Quincy, Massachusetts).
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John Adams did so well and excelled so much in school that he is admitted into Harvard College at the early age of fifteen.
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John Adams excelled in school and entered Harvard College, one of the best in the country at that time and even now, at the age fifteen. He graduated qhen he was twenty years old.
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John Adams married Abigail Smith, the well-read daughter of a minister, known for her correspondence. It is thought that she was an unofficial advisor to John Adams
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The first child and daughter of John and Abigail Adams is born nine months after their marriage. She gives birth to their first granchild.
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John Adams's oldest son, also John Adams, is born. He would later be elected to the position of President, following in his father's footsteps.
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The daughter of John and Abigail Adams is stillborn, a tragedy for the family, ezpecially when some years later their nex child is stillborn.
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For health related reasons, John Adams take a short reprieve from his work. He spends this sime in the place in which he was born, Braintree, Massachusetts.
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John Adams attende the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia as one of the four Massachusetts delegates. A year later he went to the Second Continental Congress in May. This isimportant because it marks the beginning of his career as a founding father. This is the event that sets the destiny of John Adams in motion.
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Adams publishes "Thoughts on Government" in 1776. It introduces, outlines, and discusses many of the ideas that would soon fill the Constitution, including a bicameral legislative house and a three branch government with a checks and balances system. Without this book, it is not likely our government would be the same. These are many ideas we use even today.
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John Adams goes to France and is led to the Hague, where he takes a loan for America. This is very important because at the time, the United States were not rich. This money was sorely neeed in order to pay back overdue debts and accomplish the things America's leaders wanted to accomplish.
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The Massachusetts Constitution, written in large by John Adams himself is ratified. When examining it, one can see that it closely corresponds to Adams's views. This Constitution helps historians to understand John Adams better.
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Not only had he contributed much to it, John Adams is one of the 39 delegates that signs the Constitution on that turning point day.
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William Steuben, the son of John and Abigail's first daughter, Abigail Amelia Adams, or Nabby, is born to her and her husband, Colonel William Stephens Smith.
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John Adams is elected to the position of Vice President of the United States. He is Vice President to George Washington. The is a significant point in history. John Adams would go on to accomplish many things, even averting a war, and further outine American laws and rights, in his term.
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John Adams, a member of the Federalist Party, campaigns against Thomas Jefferson and wins the election. Thomas Jefferson is his Vice President
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The XYZ Affair occurred as a result of Jay's Treaty. The French thought that the Americans were supporting Britain and captured many American ships. When Adams sent envoys to ask them to stop, France demanded a bribe. An indignant John Adams asked the Congress to ready for war.
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The Alien and Sedition Acts were created because many suspected the French of treason to the American goverment. The Alien Act allowed the US government to deport suspect immigrants and the Sedition Act disallowed American citizns from speaking against the government. Both were repealed.
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The Treaty, established after Napoleon's overthrow of the then unstable French Government, ceased all hostilities between France and the US. Without this treaty the hostilities might have continued and caused further damage to the American and French government. It is important that this treaty was signed when it was. It protected the Americans from the danger of a new rising power in France.
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A Library for the Congress is set up in the new Washington D.C. capital. Fourteen years later, when Britain burns it down, John Adams replaces it with his personal library, a gesture remembered even today. The Library of Congress is very helpful and is the research for many helful and important laws that we ave today.
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John Adams was the first ever President to sleep in the White House, which at the time was not called the White House, but simply the President's House.
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Charles Adams passes away in New York City in the year 1800. At this time he had problems with alcohol and was emotionally unstable. His father, John Adams, had sworn two years before to never see his son again, due to these problems and unfortunately, this promise was kept.
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Abigail Adams dies of typhoid fever, eight years before John Adams's own death.
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John Adams dies on the Fourth of July within hours of his friend, Thomas Jefferson, of heart failure.