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PRESIDENT JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
“THE COLLISIONS OF PARTY SPIRIT WHICH ORIGINATE IN SPECULATIVE
OPINIONS OR IN DIFFERENT VIEWS OF ADMINISTRATIVE POLICY ARE IN
THEIR NATURE TRANSITORY. THOSE WHICH ARE FOUNDED ON
GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS, ADVERSE INTERESTS OF SOIL, CLIMATE, AND
MODES OF DOMESTIC LIFE ARE MORE PERMANENT, AND THEREFORE,
PERHAPS, MORE DANGEROUS. IT IS THIS WHICH GIVES INESTIMABLE
VALUE TO THE CHARACTER OF OUR GOVERNMENT, AT ONCE FEDERAL
AND NATIONAL. IT HOLDS OUT TO US A PERPETUAL ADMONITION TO
PRESERVE ALIKE AND WITH EQUAL ANXIETY THE RIGHTS OF EACH
INDIVIDUAL STATE IN ITS OWN GOVERNMENT AND THE RIGHTS OF THE
WHOLE NATION IN THAT OF THE UNION.” MARCH 5, 1825 INAUGURAL
ADDRESS HTTP://AVALON.LAW.YALE.EDU/19TH_CENTURY/QADAMS.ASP
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS’ BIO
• BORN JULY 11, 1767 IN BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS TO THE 2ND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, JOHN ADAMS AND FIRST
LADY ABIGAIL ADAMS
• POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATION WITH THE FEDERALISTS, DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICANS, AND WHIGS
• JOHN QUINCY ADAMS TRAVELED THE WORLD WITH HIS FATHER WHILE ABROAD AS A DELEGATE FOR THE UNITED STATES
• PRACTICED LAW AROUND BOSTON UNTIL HE WAS APPOINTED MINISTER OF THE NETHERLANDS BY GEORGE WASHINGTON
• MARRIED LOUISA CATHERINE IN 1797
• WAS APPOINTED TO THE U.S. SENATE BY MASSACHUSETTS AND THEN APPOINTED MINISTER OF RUSSIA BY JAMES MADISON
AND SECRETARY OF STATE BY PRESIDENT JAMES MONROE
• JOHN QUINCY ADAMS SUCCESSFULLY NEGOTIATED THE BORDER WITH CANADA, ADAMS-ONIS TREATY OF 1819 WHICH
BROUGHT FLORIDA INTO UNITED STATES CONTROL, AND HELPED TO FORMULATE THE MONROE DOCTRINE TO SOLIDIFY THE
UNITED STATES AS THE POWER IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
ELECTION OF 1824
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CALLED A “CORRUPT BARGAIN”, THIS ELECTION WAS
ONE OF THE STRANGEST AND INTERESTING ELECTIONS
TO DATE AS JACKSON WON BOTH THE POPULAR AND
ELECTORAL VOTES OVER JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, HENRY
CLAY, AND WILLIAM CRAWFORD ALL RUNNING AS
DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICANS
•
WITH THE 12TH AMENDMENT ENACTED AS JACKSON DID
NOT HAVE ENOUGH ELECTORAL VOTES, THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES MET TO DECIDE AND VOTE ON THE
THREE CANDIDATES LEFT, JACKSON, ADAMS, AND CLAY
•
EACH STATE HAS ONE VOTE AND HENRY CLAY WAS THE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE MAKING HIM A VALUABLE
PLAYER WITHIN THIS COMPLICATED ELECTION
•
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WON BY ONE VOTE AS OLD
FEDERALISTS AND HENRY CLAY SUPPORTERS VOTED FOR
ADAMS AND THUS, ADAMS WAS NAMED PRESIDENT
AND SOON AFTER, NAMED HENRY CLAY SEC. OF STATE
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ADAMS-CAMPAIGNS-AND-ELECTIONS
CORRUPT BARGAIN AND THE ELECTION OF 1824
CONT.
• BEFORE ADAMS BEGAN HIS PRESIDENCY, THE ANGER AND POLITICAL BARGAINING FOR POWER BEGAN AND
THUS A NEW ERA OF POLITICS BEGAN AS THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS FLEW RIGHT OUT OF THE WINDOW
• “TO MOST JACKSON SUPPORTERS, IT LOOKED AS IF CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS HAD CONSPIRED TO REVIVE
THE CAUCUS SYSTEM, WHEREBY CONGRESS GREATLY INFLUENCED—IF NOT DETERMINED—THE SELECTION OF
THE PRESIDENT.” HTTP://MILLERCENTER.ORG/PRESIDENT/BIOGRAPHY/JQADAMS-CAMPAIGNS-AND-ELECTIONS
• LET THE CONSPIRACY AND HE SAID/HE SAID ARGUMENTS AND BLAMING BEGIN WHILE ANDREW JACKSON
WOULD LEAVE HIS SENATE SEAT UPSET AND READY FOR A RUN AT THE PRESIDENCY IN 1828 WITH HIS
MAJORITY FOLLOWERS IN TOW AND EVEN MORE AMERICANS WHO WERE CONFUSED OVER THE ELECTION
RESULTS THEMSELVES
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS TERM AS
PRESIDENT
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FROM PROPOSING INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS TO THE TARIFF OF ABOMINATIONS IN 1828,
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WAS NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY WITH THE ISSUES OF THE ELECTION AND
THUS PEOPLE DID NOT TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS WERE ALSO LOGJAMMED BY CONGRESS AND WHEN REQUESTED TO
PANAMA TO MEET WITH LATIN AND SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES, CONGRESS DENIED TWO
DELEGATES FROM THE UNITED STATES WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE MONROE DOCTRINE
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“THE ACTS OF CONGRESS OF THE LAST SESSION RELATIVE TO THE SURVEYING, MARKING, OR
LAYING OUT ROADS IN THE TERRITORIES OF FLORIDA, ARKANSAS, AND MICHIGAN, FROM
MISSOURI TO MEXICO, AND FOR THE CONTINUATION OF THE CUMBERLAND ROAD, ARE,
SOME OF THEM, FULLY EXECUTED, AND OTHERS IN THE PROCESS OF EXECUTION” FIRST
ANNUAL ADDRESS HTTP://WWW.PRESIDENCY.UCSB.EDU/WS/?PID=29467
•
CONGRESS MOVES TO BLOCK MANY MOVES DO TO THE ANGER AND FRUSTRATION OF THE
ELECTION AGAIN
•
SECTIONALISM BEGINS TO REAR ITS UGLY HEAD AS PROPOSALS FOR TARIFFS AND INTERNAL
IMPROVEMENTS BEGINS ARGUMENTS AS THE CONGRESS EXCHANGED HANDS AND MARTIN
VAN BUREN CAMPAIGNS FOR HIGH TARIFFS TO HELP THE MID-ATLANTIC AND WESTERN
TERRITORIES
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THIS TARIFF LED TO INFIGHTING AND POSITIONING INCLUDING JOHN C. CALHOUN WHO LED
THE SOUTH CAROLINA EXPOSITION TO NULLIFY FEDERAL LAWS THAT HURT STATES INTERESTS
•
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS TERM AS PRESIDENT WAS HIGHLY CONTESTED BY CONGRESS AND
WAS NOT TAKING SERIOUSLY AS HE LOST THE ELECTION IN BOTH POPULAR AND ELECTORAL
VOTES THAT CREATED ANGER, FRUSTRATION, AND RESENTMENT THAT WOULD PROVE TO
DESTABILIZE THE PRESIDENCY AND LEAD TO LOGJAMS IN POLICY