... better education for women. "Abigail never got over the injustice of excluding girls from proper schools, and she advocated vociferously for women's education. John Adams showed how truly thickheaded he could be when he wrote from Paris to his wife running his business and raising his children back in Braintree ... course she was also expected to raise the children and take care of elderly relatives. " (Roberts (2), p. 7) Abigail was constantly trying to get John to give women more rights within the confines of the laws. "Women, she believed, should not submit to laws not made in their ...

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... 1797) Elected without opposition as Tennessee's first U.S. Representative, Jackson supported the Democratic-Republicans. 5. U.S. Senator-(1796-1797) Elected by the state legislature, senator Jackson generally opposed the administration of John Adams. He grew impatient with the sluggish pace of Congress and resigned after five months. 6. Justice of Tennessee Superior Court-(1798-1804) Elected to Tennessee's highest court by the state ... second campaign turned more to personalities, then political issues. Both Jackson and Adams supported the protective tariff and internal improvements. Th...

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... too far north to move in quietly as a slave state. Slavery appeared less essential and more intimidating to neighboring Free states in Missouri than in the South. Additionally, as John Craig Hammond had presented, before the War of 1812 countless Northerners were more disturbed about all western territories' devotion to the Union than about the real North-South division. ... progressed each section to greater consistency on the slavery issue. In the instantaneous future, the legacy of Missouri hung profoundly over all partisan and sectional politics during the 1820s. What John Quincy Ad...

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... when Adams, the winner, named Henry Clay as Secretary of state, a post that seemed to lead straight to the presidency, having been held by every previous president except Washington and John Adams Jackson's people became suspicious. Jackson's men in Congress gave Adams a hard time, and his presidency was not as successful as Jackson's (Schlesinger 305). However, during his two ... Jeffersonian Democracy, because many of the Jacksonian beliefs could be called modernized versions of those of Jefferson. Furthermore, many people that had previously called themselves Jeffersonians, such as Z...

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... of the growing country of America in 1800, the balance of power was beginning to tip. The two leading candidates for control were Federalist John Adams, who was at the time of the election of 1800 the president, and Republican and self proclaimed "champion of democracy" Thomas Jefferson. ... solidify their position as a powerful party and opposition to the Democrats. In 1840, the Whig party nominated William Henry Harrison for presidential candidacy, and John Tyler for vice president. Harrison was portrayed as a man of the people who had been born in a log cabin and could relate to the ....

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... president ran together on the same ticket. The campaign was one of the dirtiest in American history and became a mudslinging attack on personalities. John Q. Adams was accused of enabling a corrupt administration with special emphasis on the so-called "corrupt bargain". The Jacksonians felt that he ... so the state's decision was unconstitutional. But Jackson repudiated the decisions, reportedly responding to news of the rulings with the contemptuous statement; " John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it." The Courts had no power to ensure compliance with the ruling. T...

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... and figuring. So, how, in fact, does a man that receives less education than the average American at that time, not to mention the likes of John Adams or Thomas Jefferson, be, in the many historians minds, greater than Adams or Jefferson? The long answer to that question will start when "Andy" ... one of the best politician in the U.S. at that time (William B. Lewis) and one of the wealthiest men (John Overton), his campaign was destined to be a success. His opponents were John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, who was the Secretary of State; Henry Clay of Kentucky, majority leader of the ...

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