Native American nations continued to hold their lands, but by 1824, through a series of treaties often negotiated by John Quincy Adams in conjunction with military campaigns spearheaded by Andrew ...

The election of 1824 was contested by four candidates, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, William Crawford, and Andrew Jackson, none of whom won the majority. The election was decided by a vote in the ...

John Adams expected great things from his eldest ... In the four-way election of 1824, stodgy New Englander John Quincy lost the popular vote to war hero and "man of the people" Andrew Jackson ...

If John Quincy Adams had retired after his service in the ... His victory in the bitter election of 1824 led to a presidency uniformly considered a failure. The historian Allan Nevins, raised ...

John Adams was many things: lawyer, diplomat, member of the Continental Congress, and one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in ...

John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts. His father, a farmer and deacon, hoped that Adams would enter the clergy, but his Harvard professors thought his propensity ...

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 ...