A is wrong, as if you check, John Adams' presidency was from 1797 to 1801--only a single four year term.
B is true. Since George Washington made the Proclomation of Neutrality before him, John Adams ended up having to uphold it. There's a famous debacle called the <em>XYZ </em><em>Affair</em> where US diplomats were stopped from talking to the French foreign minister by his agents unless they paid a hefty bribe. (whose names were replaced with X, Y, and Z when Adams released the documents so as to avoid involvement in French wars)
C is wrong. John Adams' wife, Abigail Adams, had been married to Adams for over thirty <em>years</em> before he took office.
D <em />is wrong. The Louisiana Purchase was in 1803, during which the third president, Thomas Jefferson, was in office.
The Hudson River School was an American art movement created by landscape artists influenced by romanticism.
Massachusetts formed a board of education for the purpose of creating public school.
The answer is letter a. It created a too-weak national government. When Congress drafted the nation's first constitution in 1777, it knew that many Americans dreaded a powerful national government. For that reason, the proposed Articles of Confederation created a framework for a loose confederation of states. Within this coalition, each state would retain "sovereignty, freedom, and independence." Also, the Congress was made up of delegates chosen by the states and could conduct foreign affairs, create treaties, proclaim war, uphold an army and a navy, coin money, and establish post offices. However, measures passed by Congress had to be approved by 9 of the 13 states. Since the Articles did not set up an executive branch to carry out the laws or a judicial branch to settle legal questions.
