AdamssentthreecommissionerstoFrance,butinthespringof1798wordarrivedthattheFrenchForeignMinisterTalleyrandandtheDirectoryhadrefusedtonegotiatewiththemunlesstheywouldfirstpayasubstantialbribe.AdamsreportedtheinsulttoCongress,andtheSenateprintedthecorrespondence,inwhichtheFrenchmenwerereferredtoonlyas"X,Y,andZ."（亚当斯曾派...
—John Adams After the war, Adams entered the field of foreign service, acting as commissioner to France in 1777. In 1783, Adams went to Paris with John Jay and Thomas Jefferson to successfully negotiate the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain, which officially ended the Revolutionary War and ...
Between the two diplomatic assignments in France, John Adams spent less than a year in America. During that time he was elected as part of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention and was put in charge of drafting the state’s first Constitution. His draft became the core of the Massachusetts...
Only when clear subterfuge (known as the XYZ Affair) was exposed, to show France’s deception, were those voices finally silenced. But, in trying to thwart civil unrest by French immigrants, Adams would pass into law an act that would have deep repercussions for his longevity as Second ...
John was the first vice president of the United States serving under General George Washington. After that John was elected the position of being the 2nd President of the United States of America in 1796. In this position Adams prevented war between France and America by signing a treaty with...
but she died when she was still a baby. In 1770 Abigail gave birth to a second son, Charles and in 1772 a son, Thomas Boylston. In 1777 they had Elizabeth who was a stillborn. In ten years the couple had six children. As his last child was born, John Adams was forty two years ...
The major accomplishment of his presidency was his peaceful resolution of the Quasi-War crisis with France in 1798. After Adams was defeated for reelection by Thomas Jefferson (at the time, Adams' vice-president), he retired to Massachusetts. He and his wife, Abigail Adams, founded an ...
Years later, Adams said that as his epitaph he could ask nothing better than the following: “Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with France in the year 1800.” That’s your history!
《约翰·亚当斯》 第三集: 休得欺我 PART III: DON'T TREAD ON ME 马萨诸塞 1777 年 艾比盖尔 Abigail. 你又要走了 You are not staying. 议会在哪儿召开? Where is the congress to meet? 约克 往城西 In york, to the west of the city. 此行目的并非议会本身 But it is not to the congress ...
John Adams was a Founding Father, the first vice president of the United States and the second president. His son, John Quincy Adams, was the nation's sixth president.