MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS FROM ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS TO XYZ AFFAIR
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New York
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Washington D.C.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -John Adams, the second president of the United States, becomes the first president to reside in Washington, D.C., when he takes up residence at Union Tavern in Georgetown. The city of Washington was created to serve as the nation’s capital because of its geographical position in the center of the existing new republic.
Detailed explanation-2: -On November 1, 1800, just before the election, Adams arrived in the new Capital City to take up his residence in the White House.
Detailed explanation-3: -On Saturday, November 1, 1800, John Adams became the first president to take residence in the building. The next day he wrote his wife Abigail: “I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this House, and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof."
Detailed explanation-4: -John Adams is inaugurated as the second President of the United States in Philadelphia. Thomas Jefferson will serve as Vice President.
Detailed explanation-5: -Washington lived in executive residences in New York and Philadelphia, and his successor John Adams also lived at the President’s House in Philadelphia. While the White House was nearing completion, President Adams temporarily lived at Tunnicliff’s City Hotel near the U.S. Capitol.