John Quincy Adams Research Paper

John Quincy Adams, which we also know as America’s sixth President was born in Braintree, Massachusetts on July 11, 1767 to the former second president John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams. He was a child that grew up during the American Revolution. He was able to not only experience it but he was also able to watch the Battle of Bunker Hill with his mother from their house. John Quincy Adams did not attend school when he was younger.
It was said that he was tutored by his cousin and one of his father’s law clerk. He did not get a real education until he traveled out the country with his father. When his father became the ambassador to France and also Netherlands, John Quincy accompanied him on the missions he took. While in Europe with his father he was able to attend Leiden University for a short period of time where he graduated in 1781. He later attended Harvard University where he received not only a law degree but he also received a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Arts. In 1791 Adams took the bar where he passed and began his career as a lawyer in Boston. Quincy’s love for politics came from watching his father. Having a father that was a man of power allowed Quincy to gain a lot of political insight

John and Louisa had four children together. John and Louisa had met when they were younger not realizing that they would end up getting married. After their first meeting that later met again years later at a party. Before their marriage Adams family was against the fact that he wanted to marry a woman that was born in a different country. Before falling in love with Louisa, John encountered love twice before in his life. Once with an actress he had seen perform a stage play and with a woman whom he had met studying law. His relationship with the woman he met while studying law ended because his mother told him not to focus on women until he would be able to support them financially as his