USA HISTORY

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783

AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What did Abigail Adams ask her husband, John, to include in the Declaration of Independence?
A
men’s rights
B
the rights of slaves
C
women’s rights
D
the rights of indentured servants
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -Abigail often shared her views with John on political matters. She famously requested that the framers of the Constitution “remember the ladies, ” telling her husband that “all men would be tyrants if they could.” She also told John that she believed there was a need for the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Detailed explanation-4: -In a letter dated March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, in Philadelphia, urging him and other members of the Continental Congress to keep the interests of women in mind as they prepared to fight for American independence from Great Britain.

Detailed explanation-5: -“I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. “Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands.

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