Adams wasn’t always the best President. But he did have some successes. A major success of Adams was that he built up an Army and a Navy to fight in the …show more content…
But, he again did have failures. A really big success was purchasing the Louisiana Territory. We purchased the territory from France while Jefferson was in office. Jefferson also drastically cut down federal power. People believed that the federal government had too much power over us. So Jefferson cut them off by a lot. Thomas Jefferson also owned slaves, just like George Washington. Owning slaves were also one of Jefferson’s failures. Jefferson also failed with the Embargo Act of 1807. He made the trading harder and more difficult. There was almost little to no