W hen John Adams became the second president of the United States in 1797, he inherited from George Washington a new experiment in government and a bit of a mess. The country’s two political ...

From the moment John Adams entered the presidency in 1797, the United States was in a state of undeclared war with France. The Quasi-War, as it was known, dominated his presidency, monopolizing ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer ... Related to the Jay Treaty, the XYZ Affair involved confrontations with France in 1797 and 1798 which became known the “Quasi- War.” Much of Adams’ presidency was ...

John Adams expected great things from his eldest ... His next post, as minister to Prussia, would come in 1797 from his father, by then president. This same year, John Quincy, at 30, married ...

John Adams served as President of the United States from 1797-1801. Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735. He studied at Harvard University and became a lawyer. Adams was a ...

In 1797 Callender published news of the ... planning to crown himself king, and grooming John Quincy as his heir to the throne. Adams was a "hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither ...

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John Adams was many things: lawyer ... Related to the Jay Treaty, the XYZ Affair involved confrontations with France in 1797 and 1798 which became known the “Quasi- War.” Much of Adams’ presidency was ...