john adams

John Adams is famous for not going to war with France over the XYZ affair. There is a theory that the Rally around the Flag effect could have given him a second term if he had declared war on France. On the Other hand its John Adams who was nicknamed his rotundity. Then there is the Alien and...

I decided to make a thread like this because I was investigating such a thing on this website, and found a general lack of threads on the topic. I believe George Washington was keen on the idea of establishing a national university, and thus my POD will come about around that time. The premise...

It appears my fascination with the early United States has no end. I was watching the HBO miniseries John Adams (2008) this afternoon when a notion I had never truly considered flew across my mind. In episode 6, when the House of Representatives is voting on the contingent election between...

Over on my test thread The Factory, I'm crafting a generic alternate history of a United States from independence to the present day. Some of the names are altered from an earlier timeline of mine called The Free North and the Home of the Brave, involving a longer presence of other colonies in...

In 1798, Alexander Hamilton, Former Secretary of the Treasury, and James Monroe, Future 5th President of the United States, almost had a duel where its likely Hamilton would've died six years earlier. So, what if that duel happened leading to Hamilton's death and because of that, Jefferson, of...

As a young, avid writer of Alternate History, I have written numerous timelines in my free time. However, I have never had the confidence to post them to this site, but I finally have a timeline I feel excited and proud enough to post here. I hope you enjoy. President John Adams's shocking...

In OTL, during the presidency of John Adams, the U.S. was involved in naval skirmishing with the French that could have effectively made the U.S. party to the War of the Second Coalition. Assuming Adams takes the country to war, and the Americans successfully secure what would have been the...

Alexander Hamilton secretly promoted a plan, already rejected by John Adams, in which American and British troops would combine to seize Spanish Florida and Louisiana, ostensibly to deter a possible French invasion. Hamilton's critics, including Abigail, saw in his military buildups the signs of...

Your challenge is to have the Federalists win a US Presidential election after John Adams' loss in 1800.

The 1796 election was quite close, with Adams defeating Jefferson by only three votes in the electoral college. What if Jefferson had won instead?

John Adams famously became the first one-term President by virtue of his defeat in the 1800 Presidential Election by Thomas Jefferson. However, what if that had not happened? How could Adams win, and what would a second term for John Adams look like?

After the confusion of 1800, the US amended it's constitution to ensure that Presidential electors vote for one Presidential ticket. Simultaneously, President Jefferson privately expressed support for abolishing the electoral college altogether. His argument was essentially the same as those...

Let's just say that John Adams wins reelection in 1800 somehow. The federalists are more organized, Burr's politicking in NY is less successful, Hamilton is less malicious towards him, whatever. What effects would this have on the nation and how would the Dem Reps. react?

I've always had a soft spot for President John Quincy Adams. What would it take to get his domestic policies (major investments in internal development that included a road from DC to New Orleans), the creation of a national university and a national astronomical observatory, gradual...

What does it take and what would happen during a second term for Adams? One thing I understood about John Adams is that he was relatively moderate among Federalists and Hamilton repeatedly intrigued to replace him with a more pliable president, a puppet of his own, possibly costing Adams a...

Prologue February 11, 1801 It was a cold February day in the young city of Washington. The winds of a brutal Nor’easter howled through the streets, which were empty though it was just noon. Wisps of cold air, like the tendrils of a clambering vine, twisted their way through cracks in the...