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

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the Illinois Legislature to create “Adams County”, with their founding ...

In 1788, when John Adams returned from Europe ... It was a four-way race, with Adams and Thomas Pinckney on the Federalist ticket and Jefferson and Aaron Burr on the Republican.

The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles ... By 1795, the Federalists had become a party in name as well. After John Adams, their candidate, was elected president in 1796, the ...

President John Adams issued a proclamation setting aside ... Fearing the extreme measures that might come out of the Federalist-dominated Senate, Republicans in the House proposed an Alien Enemy ...

Federalist newspapers from Maine to Georgia ... 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 ...

This journey was, in part, guided by one of America’s earliest champions of liberty – John Adams, a man who shaped not only his own time but laid the foundations for justice that resonate today.