The Adams Family

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The Adams Family The Adams Family

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Two very different Adams families

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  • 1. The Adams Family

2. Gomez Addams [John Astin] Morticia Addams [Carolyn Jones] Uncle Fester [Jackie Coogan] Grandmama Addams [Blossom Rock] Pugsley Addams [Ken Weatherwax] Wednesday Addams [Lisa Loring] Lurch [Ted Cassidy] Cousin Itt [Felix Silla] Thing The Addams Family 3. Gomez Addams [John Astin] Morticia Addams [Carolyn Jones] Uncle Fester [Jackie Coogan] Grandmama Addams [Blossom Rock] Pugsley Addams [Ken Weatherwax] Wednesday Addams [Lisa Loring] Lurch [Ted Cassidy] Cousin Itt [Felix Silla] Thing They're creepy and they're kookey.Mysterious and spookey.They're altogether ookey.The Addams Family.The house is a museum.When people come to see'em.They really are a scre-am.The Addams Family.NeatSweetPetiteSo get a witch's shawl on.A broomstick you can crawl on.We're going to pay a call on.The Addams Family. The Addams Family 4. The Adams Family Samuel John Quincy John 5. Samuel Adams

  • The Father of the American Revolution
  • Principal organizer of the Boston Tea Party
  • Called for the first Continental Congress
  • Signer of the Declaration of Independence
  • Governor of Massachusetts
  • Cousin to John Adams

6. Samuel Adams on Independence Day

  • We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient.He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come [ July 4 th,1776]

7. John Quincy Adams

  • Sixth President of the United States
  • The HellHound of Slavery
  • US Senator
  • Negotiated treaty to end the war of 1812
  • John Adams son

8. John Quincy Adams on Independence Day

  • The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
  • [July 4 th , 1821]

9. John Quincy Adams on Independence Day

  • From the day of the Declaration [of Independence]they [the American people] were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct.
  • [July 4 th , 1821]

10. John Quincy Adams on Independence Day

  • Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?"Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laidthe cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity "?
  • [July 4 th , 1837 when he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts]

11. John Adams

  • Second President of the United States
  • Vice President under George Washington
  • Continental Congress member
  • Signer of the Declaration of Independence
  • Negotiated treaty to end the Revolutionary War
  • Personally urged Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence

12. John Adams on Independence Day

  • I am apt to believe that it [the 4 thof July] will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the Great Anniversary Festival.It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty

13. John Adams on Independence Day

  • It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever. [July 3, 1776 letter to Abigail, his wife]

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