MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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She did not like it because it said, “governments are instituted among men as “Manly Sentiments” since they didn’t mention women
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She did not like it because it said, “governments are instituted among men as “Manly Sentiments” since they didn’t mention children
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She did not like it because it said, “governments are instituted among men as “Manly Sentiments” since they didn’t mention babies
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She did not like it because it said, “governments are instituted among men as “Manly Sentiments” since they didn’t mention animals
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Detailed explanation-1: -Abigail Adams is probably best remembered for urging her husband, John Adams, to “Remember the Ladies.” At a time when John was working on the Declaration of Independence, Abigail specifically lobbied her husband to, "be more generous and favorable to [the Ladies] than your ancestors.
Detailed explanation-2: -Abigail Adams, in this letter to her husband John Adams, asked her husband to “remember the ladies” in any new laws he may create. In his reply, John Adams treated this sentiment as a joke, demonstrating the limits of revolutionary liberty.
Detailed explanation-3: -In May of 1776, he offered a resolution that amounted to a declaration of independence from Great Britain. He was shortly thereafter a fierce advocate for the Declaration drafted by Thomas Jefferson.
Detailed explanation-4: -Abigail Adams was one of the first advocates of women’s equal education and women’s property rights. Adams had strong feelings about marriage and believed women should take more part in decisions rather than simply serve their husbands.