Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421423871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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A lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and the coming of the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850, vividly portrays the importance of the political machinations and debates that colored the age.
Author: Stephen J. Juergens
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Category : Adams, John Quincy, President United States, 1767-4848
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: John Washington Swails
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Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Author: John Quincy Adams
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Written as Member of Congress. A report to his constituents regarding petitions made concerning the right to petition and its suppression through the Gag Rule, abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia and the slave trade in the US, his opposition to the admission of Texas, a condemnation of the fraudulent Treaty of New Echota which removed the Cherokee Indians and a bill for suppressing duelling between representatives. Pages are stained.
Author: Debbie Levy
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780822508250
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Traces the life and accomplishments of the sixth president of the United States, discussing his policies, anti-slavery view, and life after his presidency.
Author: John Quincy Adams
Publisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781340573164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Author: Jane C. Walker
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
ISBN: 9780766011618
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Examines the life of the sixth president of the United States, including his childhood, marriage, and career as a debater, writer, and politician.
Author: John Torrey Morse
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Author: John Quincy Adams
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598535242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 989
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A landmark new selected edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of a man and his times from the Revolution to the coming of the Civil War The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American literature. Begun in 1779 at the age of twelve and kept more or less faithfully until his death almost 70 years later, and totaling some fifteen thousand closely-written manuscript pages, it is both an unrivaled record of historical events and personalities from the nation's founding to the antebellum era and a masterpiece of American self-portraiture, tracing the spiritual, literary, and scientific interests of an exceptionally lively mind. Now, for the 250th anniversary of Adams's birth, Library of America and historian David Waldstreicher present a two-volume reader's edition of diary selections based for the first time on the original manuscripts, restoring personal and revealing passages suppressed in earlier editions. Volume 2 opens with Adams serving as Secretary of State, amid political maneuverings within and outside James Monroe's cabinet to become his successor, a process that culminates in Adams's election to the presidency by the House of Representatives after the deadlocked four-way contest of 1824. Even as Adams takes the oath of office, rivals Henry Clay, his Secretary of State, John C. Calhoun, his vice president, and an embittered Andrew Jackson, eye the election of 1828. The diary records in candid detail his frustration as his far-sighted agenda for national improvement founders on the rocks of internecine political factionalism, conflict that results in his becoming only the second president, with his father, to fail to secure reelection. After a short-lived retirement, Adams returns to public service as a Congressman from Massachusetts, and for the last seventeen years of his life he leads efforts to resist the extension of slavery and to end the notorious "gag rule" that stifles debate on the issue in Congress. In 1841 he further burnishes his reputation as a scourge of the Slave Power by successfully defending African mutineers of the slave ship Amistad before the Supreme Court. The diary achieves perhaps its greatest force in its prescient anticipation of the Civil War and Emancipation, an “object,” as Adams described it during the Missouri Crisis, “vast in its compass, awful in its prospects, sublime and beautiful in its issue.”
Author: John Torrey Morse
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385314097
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
