Date
1-16-2025
Department
College of Arts and Sciences
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy in History (PhD)
Chair
Timothy D. Holder
Keywords
John Quincy Adams, Louisa Catherine Adams, John Adams, Abigail Adams, Joshua Johnson, Trans-Atlantic Trade
Disciplines
History
Recommended Citation
Brawner, Claude Randall, "Products of their Inheritance and Experiences: The Political and Personal Influences on John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams" (2025). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 6441.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/6441
Abstract
John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams were important contributors to the American political landscape during a period of maturity. The Unites States was striving to solidify its independence within the dynamics of the global environment. The French Revolution and the resulting contingencies within the European nations had significant effect upon America. John Quincy and Louisa Catherine overcame significant ideological differences and each cooperated to provide essential differences within the global construct. Louisa Catherine began her marriage to John Quincy through an unexpected situation that was significantly expected and different from her childhood. The financial collapse of her father had significant and long-lasting effects upon Louisa Catherine. She would be forced to comply with the mandates of the Adamses which were foreign to her ideology. There was regional, family, cultural, and religious influences that contributed to different principles. The Northeastern influence upon John Quincy as well as the Southern and European patterns of Louisa Catherine reflect sectional as well as an inherited philosophical basis. Louisa Catherine would eventually adapt to the Adams’s philosophy and become a valuable contributor to the successes of John Quincy. John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams collaborated to make significant contributions to the maturity of the United States through personal sacrifices that overcame their differing ideological basis throughout the beginning period of American social and political development.
