Abigail And John Adams Research Paper

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Abigail and John Adams on Women and the American Revolution

This started March 31, 1776, the wife of John Adams, Abigail Adams who’s a strong advocate of women’s rights. Writes a letter to John stating for him and other members of the Continental Congress to not forget about the women fighting for America for whatever new law they may create. Because she felt that the nation should recognize women more than just property. She wanted John to not enforce laws that gave men more power than women.
In the eighteenth-century women spent the majority of their days the doing many tedious task at homes. The worst bar none is bearing children because they had on average five to eight children and not even

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