Overview of John Quincy Adams' Administration

An Overview of John Quincy Adams' Administration

During Adams' administration, Noah Webster brought out his American Dictionary of the English Language, and James Fenimore Cooper published his famous The Last of the Mohicans. The American labor movement began in Philadelphia, the Erie Canal opened, and the first passenger railroad in America began laying track.

John Quincy Adams was never a popular President, chiefly because of his aloof manner. He didn't even try to defend himself against attacks by Andrew Jackson and his followers, feeling it was below the dignity of the President to engage in political debate. At the same time, Jackson was gaining great popularity. In the election of 1828, Jackson won a popular vote proportionately larger than any other presidential candidate received during the rest of the 1800's.

His Vice-President and Cabinet
Vice-President	John C. Calhoun
Secretary of State	Henry Clay
Secretary of the Treasury	Richard Rush
Secretary of War	James Barbour Peter B. Porter (1828)
Attorney General	William Wirt
Secretary of the Navy	Samuel L. Southard


U.S. Events During His Administration
Population in 1825 11,252,237
1825	The first women's labor union was organized in New York City.
1825	The Erie Canal was completed.
1828	The first passenger railroad in America, the Baltimore & Ohio, began laying track westward from Baltimore.
1828	Noah Webster published his dictionary.


World Events During His Administration
1825	Czar Nicholas I of Russia crushed the Decembrist Uprising, a revolt of discontented nobles.
1826-1828	Russia invaded Persia, and won the land north of the Aras River.
1829	Russia defeated Turkey in war, gaining valuable ports on the Black Sea.

Presidents of the United States. The Internet Public Library. www.ipl.org/div/potus/jqadams.html
The American President. www.americanpresident.org/history/johnquincyadams/
The White House. www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ja6.html

Noah Webster
Andrew Jackson

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