Both of their works are often about a lot of things, but I'd say they were written to, say, "boost morale" of the american people.
She began teaching school at age 14. In 1819, she returned to Boston and founded the Dix Mansion, a school for girls, along with a charity school that poor girls could attend for free. She began writing textbooks, with her most famous, Conversations on Common Things, published in 1824.
John Quincy Adams imposed a law that would support anything that will result in profit for the market of United States.Examples are commerce, agriculture and arts. This was his stepping stone towards making the United States become the "first and mightiest nation in the world".