Grab your group’s hmw
and quiz from yesterday
-Where are your group’s weaknesses?
-Are you communicating well?
-What are your group’s strengths?
-Is everyone at the same level?
Reminders
AP
No
Homework
John Adams Memorial
John Adams…
In your
groups, make
a list of
everything
John Adams
has done so
far…
Background Knowledge
Adams
vs. Jefferson in 1796
Adams
had little appeal to the
masses
Appearance
Successor
to Washington
Jay’s Treaty- Settled issues with
Britain
Adams

Adams considered himself the heir apparent to President
Washington, having languished in the vice presidency–which he
described as the most insignificant office that ever the invention
of man contrived or his imagination conceived–for eight years,
awaiting his turn. Furthermore, he believed that no man had
made greater sacrifices for the nation during the American
Revolution than he. In addition to risking his legal career to
protest British policies, he sat as a member of the First
Continental Congress for three years and served abroad from
1778-88, making two perilous Atlantic crossings to carry out his
diplomatic assignments. During that ten years, his public service
had forced him to live apart from his wife and five children
nearly ninety percent of the time.
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ADAMS- FEDERALIST
JEFFERSON- DEM-REP
THOMAS PICKNEY *****
AARON BURR
SAM ADAMS
JOHN JAY
Insults and Slurs
Identify
if the insult said is
from the election of 1796
or 2016!
The Republicans condemned Adams as "the
champion of rank, titles, and hereditary
distinctions." The Federalists claimed that
Jefferson was intent on undermining religion
and morality.
Impressment

To keep the peace with French 3 Americans went to negotiate
with Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
 Forced
to pay a bribe to XYZ to talk to Talleyrand
 $250,000

Feds. Wanted to prevent poor immigrants from voting=
 They
 War
would vote in favor of Jefferson’s Democrats
with France in the future???
Alien Act- Deport or Imprison “Dangerous Foreigners”
Sedition Act- Anyone who wrote or said anything bad about the govt.
(including Adams) could be jailed and fined.
Congress passed it
Adams signed it
Supreme Court upheld it
But only until 1801
All
Federalists
Discuss in your groups…
 What
were the successes of John
Adam’s Presidency?
 What were the failures of John
Adam’s Presidency?
 Was John Adams a good President?
John Adams Quotes
Meaning
of Quote?
Context Clue? What is he referring
to?
One adjective
•"My country has in its
wisdom contrived for me the
most insignificant office that
ever the invention of man
contrived or his imagination
conceived."
•"[As president] I refused to
suffer in silence. I sighed,
sobbed, and groaned, and
sometimes screeched and
screamed. And I must confess
to my shame and sorrow that I
sometimes swore."
•"I desire no other inscription
over my gravestone than:
Here lies John Adams, who
took upon himself the
responsibility of the peace
with France in the year 1800."
“I must study
politics and war that
my sons may have
liberty to study
mathematics and
philosophy.”
•Great is the
guilt of an
unnecessary
war.”
Alien and Sedition Acts
Party Divisions