With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s ...

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 ...

The Whig Party formed out of the National Republican Party, the leaders of which were John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. They were nationalists, supported internal improvements and moral reforms ...

However, with training and time, John was able to refine his skills. As a member of the Federalist Party, Adams decided to run for the presidency. He lost and became Vice-president to George ...

It became a defining divide between the Whig and Democratic parties in the ... the final expulsion of England from the American continent.” John Quincy Adams, who served as James Monroe ...