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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"John Quincy Adams"”.
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Freedom, Independence, Peace: Revisiting the Foreign Policy of John Quincy Adams
… a foreign policy derived from the principles of John Quincy Adams would better suit America's needs, interests, and limitations. This thesis elucidates Adams' three great principles of foreign policy—freedom, independence, and peace—and considers what a foreign policy animated by these principles …
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Slavery exacts an impossible price: John Quincy Adams and the Dorcas Allen case, Washington, DC
… in downtown Washington.</p><p>Seventy-year-old John Quincy Adams, then serving his fourth term as a Massachusetts congressman, noticed the advertisement and attended the auction. For the first time in his life, Adams witnessed the utter misery of a slave auction, and, after learning that Allen's …
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Musical attitudes and activities of representative American statesmen
… Francis Hopkinson, Thomas Jefferson, and John Quincy Adams.
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The Slaveholders, the Mexican Liberals, and the Texan Revolution
… the intra-Democratic factional strife, of 1844. |John Quincy Adams and Thomas Hart Benton were notable leaders of the opposition to pro-Texan activities. Adams became the recognized leader in Congress for those who opposed annexation on an anti-slavery basis, Benton led the intra-Democratic …
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Revolutionary Republics: U.S. national narratives and the independence of Latin America, 1810-1846
… prominent public figures as Daniel Webster and John Quincy Adams, to hostile enemies allegedly in need of assistance from their northern neighbor. This reversal exposes a contradiction between the imperialist ventures of the United States and its espoused principles of republican democracy, …
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An Excavation of Margaret and Jerry Morgan: How The Architecture of Black Liminal Spaces Shaped Antebellum Conflict between Maryland and Pennsylvania
… Court and the machinations of the white elite. John Quincy Adams famously remarked on the complexity of the ruling - he only knew the half of it. In order to capture the full story, we have to analyze the choices that the Morgans made in their lifetimes which never made it to the Supreme …
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This Inglorious War: The Second Seminole War, the Ad Hoc Origins of American Imperialism, and the Silence of Slavery
… ambitions over the rest of the continent - John Quincy Adams disgustedly condemned their agenda as promulgating a "culture of conquest" - mainstream Whigs remained largely silent over this radical alteration of American foreign policy, though only a few years before, they had steadfastly …
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Thomas Paine nella trasmissione atlantica della rivoluzione
… dentro la vicenda rivoluzionaria americana. John Pocock riconosce la difficoltà di comprendere e spiegare Paine, quando sostiene che Common Sense non evoca coerentemente nessun prestabilito vocabolario atlantico e la figura di Paine non è sistemabile in alcuna categoria di pensiero politico. …