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4 giorni fa · Abigail Adams wrote a letter to future president John Adams to "remember the ladies" while drafting the Declaration of Independence. The country's first ladies play a significant and unique...
5 giorni fa · By 1797, Abigail was one of the nation’s shrewdest and most accurate commentators on political affairs, especially during the 1800 campaign when Alexander Hamilton traveled across New England ...
1 giorno fa · By doing so, noted Stanton, Corbin “proclaimed the basic principles of a republic” as applying to women. This put her alongside Mercy Otis Warren and Abigail Smith Adams, who famously told her husband, John Adams, in March 1776, to “remember the Ladies” as the plans for a declaration of independence and a new code of laws were underway.
4 giorni fa · In 1764 Adams married Abigail Smith, a minister’s daughter from neighbouring Weymouth. Intelligent, well-read, vivacious , and just as fiercely independent as her new husband, Abigail Adams became a confidante and political partner who helped to stabilize and sustain the ever-irascible and highly volatile Adams throughout his long ...
- John Adams was an advocate of American independence from Britain, a major figure in the Continental Congress (1774–77), the author of the Massachus...
- Having finished second to George Washington in the first U.S. presidential election in 1789 and serving as Washington’s vice president (1789–97), A...
- John Adams’s family could trace its lineage to the first generation of Puritan settlers in New England and made major contributions to U.S. politic...
- John Adams was born and raised in Braintree (now in Quincy), Massachusetts. The eldest of the three sons of farmer and shoemaker Deacon John Adams,...
5 giorni fa · In 1764, he married Abigail Smith, who would go on to play an influential role in his involvement in politics. During the Stamp Act Crisis, he was associated with the Sons of Liberty, along with his cousin, Samuel Adams.
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6 giorni fa · Abigail Adams was more than a wife to one president and mother to another; she had a first-hand view of many of the key moments in the American Revolution — and she documented them in her letters to family and friends. In this unique biography, author Natalie S. Bober uses Adams' letters to capture both epic mome
5 giorni fa · In reality, Americans have dissected the appearances, portfolios, and political influence of first ladies since 1797, when John Adams took the oath of office, and Abigail... Read full story. Politics.
