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Significant Acts
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Signed the Alien and Sedition Acts, a set of unpopular laws that in 1798 limited free speech and dissent.
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Reluctantly revealed the XYZ Affair, a foreign diplomatic scandal in 1798.
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Signed a treaty with Napoleon Bonaparte in 1800 that prevented war between the United States and France.
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Appointed several conservative judges in 1800 during the last hours of his presidency; these became known as the 'midnight judges.'
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Career
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1765 Led the Massachusetts protest against the Stamp Act.
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1774-1777 Served as Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress.
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1776 Helped draft the Declaration of Independence.
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1778 Became commissioner to France.
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1782-1783 Helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris, which ended the American War of Independence.
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1785-1788 Served as American minister to Great Britain.
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1789-1796 Served as vice president under George Washington.
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1797-1801 President of the United States.
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1801 Retired to Quincy, Massachusetts.
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Did You Know
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Adams was the first president to live in the White House, then known as the Executive Mansion.
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Adams died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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Adams's vice president, Thomas Jefferson, was Adams's chief rival and belonged to a different political party.
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Until the presidential election of 2000, Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams, were the only father and son who both became president.
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American revolutionary leader Samuel Adams was John Adams's cousin.
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