John Quincy Adams :: essays research papers

                                                       Lenora Spahn  â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â 10/7/00 Presidential Outline I. John Quincy Adams      A. Conceived July 11, 1767      B. Passed on February 23, 1828 II. Foundation      A. Instructive Attended Harvard (1785-1787); Studied law under Theophilus Parsons  â â â â at Newburyport, Mass. (1787-1790); Admitted to the bar, 1790.      B. Word related-  â â â â â â â â â 1. Clergyman to the Netherlands, 1784-1797  â â â â â â â â â 2. Clergyman to Prussia, 1797-1801  â â â â â â â â â 3. Massachusetts State Senator, 1802  â â â â â â â â â 4. US Senator (Federalist-Massachusetts), 1803-1808  â â â â â â â â â 5. Clergyman to Russia, 1809-1814  â â â â â â â â â 6. Boss Negotiator of Treaty of Ghent, 1814  â â â â â â â â â 7. Clergyman to Great Britain, 1815-1825  â â â â â â â â â 8. Secretary of State, 1817-1825 (under James Monroe)  â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â III. Terms Of Office      A. First Term (1825-1829) IV. Conspicuous Issues of the Election      A. Differed degrees of help for a defensive tax      B. A government program of interior enhancements V. Adversaries      A. First Term-  â â â â â â â â â 1. Andrew Jackson, Tennessee  â â â â â â â â â 2. William H. Crawford, Georgia  â â â â â â â â â 3. Henry Clay, Kentuckyâ â â â â VI. VPs      A. First Term-John C. Calhoun, South Carolina VII. Ideological group no gathering names utilized VIII. Household Events      A. John Quincy Adams turns into the sixth President, 1825.      B. Erie Canal Opens, 1825: joins Lake Erie with New York City through the Hudson  â â â â  â â â â River.      C. South Carolina Exposition and Protest, 1828: after an enemy of levy fight was held in  â â â â Columbia, South Carolina, delegates from 13 states assembled to ask a tax rise,  â â â â following the disavowal of a bill concerning levy increments, after a tie-breaking vote from      Vice-President Calhoun. IX. Major Foreign Policy      A. Panama Congress, 1826: Adams upheld US cooperation in the Panama  â â â â  â â â â  â â â â Congress; However, southern congressmen who dreaded the gathering may be utilized to  â â â â censure servitude, just as Adams’s political adversaries postponed the affirmation of  â â â â the US designates sufficiently long to make it difficult to reach Ranama so as to  â â â â  â â â â join in.      B. Levy of Abominations, 1828: A high tax on imported made merchandise to  â â â â  â â â â ensure local industry. Later provoked Vice President Calhoun to draft the SC  â â â â  â â â â Exposition censuring the levy as â€Å"unconstitutional, abusive, and unjust† and  â â â â  â â â â asserting the privilege of a state to invalidate such laws.  â â â â X. Significant Conflict      A. The Tariff of Abominations demonstrated Adams' reluctancy to submit to political