Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . lass at Harvard, from whichhe graduated in 1788. Washingtonappreciated his ability, and madehim minister to The Hague andafterward to Portugal. When hisfather became President he trans-ferred him to Berlin. The Federal-ists elected him to the United StatesSenate in 1803, and in 1809 hewas ajjpointed minister to negotiated important commer-cial treaties with Prussia, Sweden, and Great Britain, and, it will be remem-b
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . lass at Harvard, from whichhe graduated in 1788. Washingtonappreciated his ability, and madehim minister to The Hague andafterward to Portugal. When hisfather became President he trans-ferred him to Berlin. The Federal-ists elected him to the United StatesSenate in 1803, and in 1809 hewas ajjpointed minister to negotiated important commer-cial treaties with Prussia, Sweden, and Great Britain, and, it will be remem-bered, he was leading commissioner in the treaty of Ghent, which brought theWar of 1812 to a close. He was a man of remarkable attainments, but he pos-sessed little magnetism or attractiveness of manner, and l)y his indifferencefailed to draw warm friends and supjiorters around him. Adams was re-elected to Congress repeatedly after serving out his term as President. He wasseized with apoplexy while on the point of rising from his desk in the Plouseof Representatives, and died February 23, 1S4S. The country was highly prosperous (hiring the presidency of the younger. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. (1767-1S48.) One term, lS2u-18L1i. 212 ADMINISTRATIOXS OF MONROE AND ADAMS. Adams. The public debt, to which the War of 1812 added $80,000,000, beganto show a marked decrease, money was more plentiful, and most important ofall was the introduction of the steam locomotive from England. Experimentshad been made in that country for a score of years, but it was not until 1829that George Stephenson, the famous engineer, exhibited his Rocket, whichran at the rate of nearly twenty miles an hour. INTRODUCTION OF THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE. The first clumsy attempts on this side were made in 1827, when two shortlines of rails were laid at Quincy, near Boston, but the cars were drawn by horses,and, when shortly after, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was chartered, theintention was to use the same motor. In 1829, a
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