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=**John Quincy Adams**=
 * July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848
 * In office: March 4, 1825- March 4, 1829
 * Parties- Federalist, Democratic- Republican, National Republican, Anti- Masonic, Whig
 * Vice President- John C. Calhoun (1825-1832)

Overall Rating:
President John Quincy Adams got into office by what the people called a corrupt bargain. So when he first took office many people were outraged. This gave him a shaky start with his country's people. He was also considered one of America's least successful presidents. I would give President Adams a C-. Going into office John Quincy's main goal was to put in place a system called the American System. It consisted of high tariffs to support internal improvements. Such as, road building, a national university and many other improvements to change or modernize America. Support was limited for this ambitious plan. There were very few supporters even from him own party. Some of his proposals where adopted and slow changes started to take place in America. I would say this goal was accomplished very half-asked seeing that only a few pieces of his proposal was adopted. He also tried to create another political party, called "The National Republican Party". The party never took root in the states. Despite the effort of Henry Clay and John Quincy, the goal of a new party was not accomplished. After the proposal of a new party, a new leader of the senate was elected; a future president, Martin Van Buren, and a follower of Jackson. It is basically said that when this happened Adams lost control of his congress and from that point on nothing was accomplished. John Quincy Adams and his congress had a bad relationship from the beginning. They didn't agree on much of anything. This made Adams time as president very unsuccessful. Most of his time in office, congress would propose a law, Adams would veto it and he would propose a plan that would get no support from congress. The worse part, he refused to take the people who supported Jackson out of his administration. His relationship with congress only got worse when Martin Van Buren became leader of the senate. He was a die hard Jackson supporter and was also very angry at the corrupt bargain getting Adams into office. An example of his inability to get along with congress would be mainly over protective tariffs. Henry Clay supported them but his vice president, John Calhoun was against them. His view of protective tariffs was unknown but this split the administration up the center about a lot of issues. He signed into the Tariff of Abominations. This was very unpopular in the south because it mainly hurt their economy. Signing into this tariff limited his chances of doing anything else in his term. During his presidency John Adams worked on the American System, which mainly helped the people's transportation around the country. Although it didn't say, how the people reacted specifically, it does indicate that they were against the proposal. For them it meant paying more taxes for roads they might never use. Other than this, he did nothing else that could have been popular among the US people. He did however upset the South over the Tariff Of Abominations. They bought a lot from the North, and relied on their supplies to keep the region stocked with other things besides cotton. This tariff hurt their economy because they had to pay a tax to get the goods from the North, that they needed. John Adams didn't have a lasting effect on the people because he didn't do anything important during his presidency. He will be remembered more for his secretary of state job, before the presidency than he will for his time in office. As Secretary of State he was known as one of the best diplomats. In conclusion I gave John Quincy a C- because he didn't really do anything that put the country worse off than before. Also he didn't do anything that he will be remembered for or that changed the country forever. The only things that he did, were the American system which was not preferred by the people but not hated and the Tariff of Abominations which were hated by the South. This gave him an average rating, most of the country that voted for Jackson was just waiting for the four years to be up and for Jackson to run again and beat him.

Works Cited:
"John Quincy Adams." __Wikipedia__. 13 Oct. 2008 .

"The White House." __John Quincy Adams__. 13 Oct. 2008 .