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=**John Quincy Adams**= Born: July 11, 1767 Died: February 23, 1848 Party(ies)- Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, Anti-Masonic, Whig Term: March 4, 1825 to March 4, 1829 Vice President: John C. Calhoun

Although it was a controversial entrance into office for John Quincy Adams, he turned out to be an okay president. His entrance was so controversial because of the so called "Corrupt Bargain" of 1824. Despite this fact, Mr. Adams was known as one of the least succesful presidents. This is why he deserves the grade of a C-.

John Q. Adam wanted to make any major changes while he was in office. He wanted to uphold the Constituition just like his father had done while he was in office. What he really wanted to do was to continue with the ideas of the "American System." The "American System" was the support of a high tariff to protect American industries, the maintenance of public land prices to generate federal revenue, the preservation of the Bank of the United States, and the development of a series of roads and canals. This nationalistic idea was not seen fondly by the citizens of America, mostly because they had moved on from their nationalistic views. However, John Q. Adams didn't listen to the citizens and went on with the various ideas. He began planning these by hiring many engineers to construct the roads and railroads for America. John Q. Adams and his Secretary of State, Henry Clay, passed protective tariffs which favored the more industrialized North. Also while being opposed to slavery, the Southerners were afraid that he might also try to abolish slavery. He was also able to keep the national bank up and running throughout his term in office. Overall, John Q. Adams was able to accomplish his nationalistic views of America by passing protective tarriffs, setting up roads and canals, and keeping the national bank running.

JOhn Quincy Adams had a very bad relationship with Congress. During his time in office, Congress was very unproductive due to the fact that they disliked Adams in general. Congress was full of political oponents to Adams which hurt his ability to pass many laws or bills. He was constantly under fire from opposing members of Congress, along with Andrew Jackson, the man who really should have been president at this time.Adams tried to pass a bill to rid the states of slavery, but Congress crushed any hopes of him having the bill passed due to the fact that the South depended on slavery. Congress mostly never passed anything that Adams wanted, they disagreed on many of his thoughts of "internal improvements", and the only thing that they did pass would be the tariffs in 1828.

The one greatest thing that John Q. Adams could have done for America during his term would have been the building of road networks for travel and to access the markets of the West. This was the best thing he did because he connected all of the markets in AMerica at the present time in history. This would allow goods from the settled parts of AMerica to trade with each other and become dependent on more than they were used to. These road systems actually brought in a profit to the Bank of the United States, because the government was paying to build these road systems.

The biggest dissapointment of Adams presidency was the "Tariff of Abominations." This is because it so poorly affected the Southern economy. It made the Southern economy only buy goods from the North. This hurt the economy of the South majorly, becaused they then had to trade out of country in unprotected markets with the rest of the world. This hurt Adams reputation even more, but it didn't matter because he would soon be out of office, and it would be someone else's problem.

The building of transportation systems affected the country much more greatly than any other act that Adams did. This opened up travel for people to move out West, trade with the North and South, and allow to communicate more easily with the frotier people. This helped out the future presidents, because then they would be able to travel out West and see what the frontier people wnated from them when they were in office. Without these transportation systems or networks, many of the Western markets would have failed and it would have been very hard to communicate with anybody West of the Mississippi River.

The country was much better off after Adams was through with his term in office even though he was one of the least productive presidents. He was able to set up transportation networks to allow trade out West and to communicate with the frontier people. Although, since he was a president who wasn't very successful, he gets the grade of a C-.

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Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey. __The American Pageant__. 12th ed. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. 259-60.

"Biography of John Quincy Adams." __The White House__. The White House. 9 Oct.2008 http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ja6.html.

Hragreaves, Mary. "John Quincy Adams." __American President__. 1 Jan. 2008. Miller Center of Puclic Affairs: University of Virginia. 9 Oct. 2008 http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/jqadams.