And she took her boy by the hand and they went back down to the house and she started melting down the family pewter, with John Quincy helping her, and making musket balls for the American revolutionary troops.”Ībigail and John Adams were strong patriots. “When her first-born son John, John Quincy, was seven, they heard the cannon fire in the distance and they went up to the top of the hill behind their farm house and could look across Boston Harbor and see the Battle of Bunker Hill. The historian tells this story about Abigail Adams and her son in 1775 in Massachusetts during the Revolutionary War. Historian Harlow Giles Unger wrote a biography of John Quincy Adams – “Quinzy” incidentally is how the family pronounced it.
John Quincy’s mother, Abigail, made sure he received an excellent education. His father was John Adams, the second president. So, after his speech, John Quincy Adams took the oath of office that made him the sixth president of the United States. Presidents-elect used to give their inaugural address before their swearing in. He told the crowd gathered at the Capitol that he needed the help of everyone in the years to come. The House chose Adams as the next president. So the House of Representatives had to make the decision. No candidate had received a majority of electoral votes. So now, he said, it was time for the people to settle their differences and make a truly national government.Īdams closed his speech by recognizing that he was a minority president.
He noted that during the past 10 years, political party differences had eased. The nation was free and strong and stretched across the continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
Adams said the Constitution and the representative democracy of the United States had proved a success. President-elect Adams focused his inaugural address on unity. Monroe’s two terms as president were ending. All the leaders of government were there: senators, congressmen, Supreme Court justices and James Monroe. A big crowd came to the Capitol building for the ceremony. John Quincy Adams was sworn in as president of the United States on March 4, 1825. From VOA Learning English, welcome to The Making of a Nation, our weekly program of American history for people learning English.
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