Abigail Adams and Power
Abigail Adams and Power - Lesson Plan - America in Class
In this lesson students will investigate concerns about the dangers of unrestrained power during the revolutionary period through four letters.
Abigail Smith Adams | National Women's History Museum
She opposed slavery and supported women's education. Born to a prominent family in Weymouth, Massachusetts on November 11, 1744, Adams' father, Reverend William ...
Abigail Adams | George Washington's Mount Vernon
Adams advocated for gender equality in public education and the need to pay attention to the social, political, and educational needs of women. She also firmly ...
Abigail Smith Adams | The White House
She was also the mother of the sixth President, John Quincy Adams. A political influencer, she is remembered for the many letters of advice she exchanged with ...
Unlike Martha Washington, Abigail Adams opposed slavery and had favored its abolition in the early 1770s. While sympathetic to the slaves and the hardships they ...
Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818) - National Park Service
Yet Abigail's vision of independence was broader than that of the delegates. She believed all people, and both sexes, should be granted equal ...
Abigail Adams - White House Historical Association
On October 25, 1764, Abigail married John Adams, and the newlywed couple moved into his family home in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts.
Abigail Adams | American Battlefield Trust
Notwithstanding the stigma associated with women and politics, Abigail openly expressed her political beliefs in letters to her husband. She confessed “my pen ...
Biography: Abigail Adams | American Experience | Official Site - PBS
Between 1765 and 1772, she bore five children, one of whom, John Quincy, would become the sixth president of the United States. During these years, John ...
Abigail Adams - Plaza of Heroines
She wrote forcefully about political issues not just during the moment of the revolutionary era, but during the movement for a new constitution and snuggle of ...
Abigail Adams was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth ...
Abigail Adams - National Women's Hall of Fame
Wife of one president and mother of another, Abigail Adams was more than a family woman. Insightful, witty, and intensely concerned with politics.
More Power to You - Colonial Williamsburg
If tyranny was unacceptable in government, it should be intolerable in marriage. Abigail Adams was among those who wanted a new interpretation ...
Abigail Adams - Women's Rights National Historical Park (U.S. ...
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and ...
Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818) - The American Revolution
Abigail Smith Adams wasn't just the strongest female voice in the American Revolution; she was a key political advisor to her husband and became the first ...
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 7 - 9 May 1776
retaining an absolute power over Wives. But you must remember that Arbitary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken ...
Remember the Ladies | Timeless - Library of Congress Blogs
Abigail Adams wrote these words to her husband, John Adams, on March 31, 1776, nearly 150 years before the House of Representatives voted to pass the 19th ...
Abigail Adams urges husband to “remember the ladies” | HISTORY
Abigail Adams urges husband to “remember the ladies” ... In a letter dated March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams, urging ...
“Remembering the Ladies” Series – Women in the Political ...
Historians refer to Abigail Adams as a “Woman of Firsts”: the first woman to be Second Lady of the United States, first woman to be the wife ...
Abigail Adams - National First Ladies' Library
As their letters attest, it was no secret that John Adams relied on Abigail's astute political insight. Even then, he chose to ignore her insistence on ...