John Q. Adams
1825-1829
Party: Whig
Election Opponents: John C. Calhoun, William Crawford, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson
America At This Time
Erie Canal Finally Completed
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
First American Railroad completed
Key People of this Presidency
James Barbour- Secretary of War
Peter B. Porter- Secretary of War
William Wirt- Attorney General
Samuel L. Southard- Secretary of Navy
Economic Policies
Favored high tariff to encourage building of factories
National bank to encourage produce enterprises
Support for the arts and sciences
Restricted land sales to slow movement west
Foreign Policies
Chief designer of the Monroe Doctrine
Was prevented from resolving the ongoing issue of trade with the British West Indies
Had already secured the disarmament of the Great Lakes, fishing Canadian boundry, accession of Florida, and US spanish border west of the Mississippi claim to the pacific coast in the Northwest.
Domestic policies
he called for national projects (road and canal building, national university, and national bank.)
signed tariff bill into law which protected american merchants (tariff of abominations)
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