Between 1778 and 1788, John Adams served his country as a diplomat in France, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. His independent, unbending temperament was not ideal for diplomacy, and his ...

Challenges John Adams was in the shadow of George Washington, and he knew it. He served one term as president. The true test of his presidency came in the aftermath of the Jay Treaty, which Washington ...

John Adams had feared just such a chaotic end: A revolution of this sort, he had argued, would lead not to democracy but despotism. France had abolished its monarchy only to find itself under the ...

When John Adams became the second president of ... sinking deeper into a foreign policy crisis with its onetime ally France. Adams’ Federalist Party wanted to fight; the Democratic-Republicans ...

France and England signed a peace treaty ... pen of none other than Jefferson’s old friend and political rival John Adams. In letters to his sons Charles and John Quincy in January of 1794 ...

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 ...

October: Adams, along with John Quincy, leaves France for London where they spend several months taking in the sights. January: Adams returns to Amsterdam where he negotiates a second loan with ...

France's "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" outlines the citizen's rights and prevents a group or person from exercising authority without the nation's consent. John Adams ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always ... Paris in 1784 to join Benjamin Franklin and Adams as ministers to France, Adams much admired and liked Jefferson. Adams famously remarked that ...

John Adams rose to prominence in 1770 ... His biggest accomplishment as president was keeping us out of war with France. When he was defeated, he set the precedent for the peaceful transfer ...

Later Franklin was named the first American minister to France. Despite their differences, Franklin and Adams eventually found a way to work together, and with John Jay they negotiated the ...

John Adams was born on October 30 ... Continental Army was crucial to the success of the war. As a diplomat in France and the Netherlands during the war, he negotiated alliances and loans ...