John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767, in Braintree, which is now Quincy Massachusetts. He was the son of Abigael and John Adams. John Quincy was a son of the Revolution which began when he was seven years old. His father was the man at the second continental congress that nominated George Washington to lead the Continental Congress. He spent most of his early life over seas with his father. In 1776 when he was nine years old the Common Sense was written by Thomas Paine, which was an article written to say why the colonists should go to war against Britain. Also when he was a young boy the Declaration was written and signed by, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Hancock and many more. He graduated from Harvard at the age of 26 then he became a lawyer.
George Washington appointed Adams as minister to the Netherlands from 1794 to 1796. From 1817 to 1825 he served as Secretary of State in the cabinet of James Monroe. He tried to make amendments to the Constitution in 1839, saying that no person that was born in America would be born a slave. There was many good things that John Quincy Adams did for the revolution. He later went on to become the sixth President of the United States.
John Quincy participated in the revolution because is father played a major role in it. So he was pretty much born into it. He wanted to do things for his country and do things to make his father proud. He really wanted to be living without being controlled by England. He knew what had happened at the Boston Massacre, he had heard about it. He saw the famous propaganda picture made by Paul Revere. He didn't want to live in that, he didn't want his family to live in it, to grow up in it like he had done.
Adams has gotten fairly good recognition, being the president and all of the stuff he did in the Revolution. He could have a little more though. Before he died he wrote what was going to be on his headstone. He didn't put anything about being the sixth President on there, he didn't feel that it was an important event in his life. All of the other stuff he did in the Revolution he did put on there. This shows that he deserves some recognition. He was a good man and did well for himself when he was alive.