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27 Cards in this Set
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Maiden Name |
Smith |
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Date of Birth |
November 22, 1744 |
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Who was her famously named Grandfather? |
John Quincy |
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Who was her husband? |
John Adams |
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Did her family approve of her husband? Why? |
No--He was a middling county Lawyer |
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How was she related to her husband? |
Third Cousin |
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How many children did she have? |
5 |
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What was the name of her stillborn daughter? |
Susanna |
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What was the name of her 6th son that eventually became president? |
John Quincy Adams |
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Why did she name her son John Quincy? |
After her grandfather, who died two days after his birth. |
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What are the names of her children, in order? |
Abigail " Nabby " Amelia Adams John Quincy Adams Susanna Adams Charles Adams Thomas Boylston Adams |
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What did she tell her husband to remember in her letter to him as President? |
Remember the Women |
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Thoughts on slavery? |
Abolitionist |
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Birthplace |
Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay |
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Who was her father? |
William Smith |
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Who was her mother? |
Elizabeth Quincy |
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How many siblings did she have? |
Three--She was the second of four children |
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Did she have a normal education? Why? |
No--She was sick, so her parents homeshooled her and she read many books. |
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Where did she learn to manage and maintain property? |
Her father--she was taught to work in fields and in the home alongside her siblings. |
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Her father, William, was the ordained minister of what church? |
North Parish Congregational Church of Weymouth |
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What was the name of Abigail's tutor from late childhood that her sister ended up marrying? |
Richard Cranch |
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Where did she and her husband first move in together? |
Braintree |
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Why was her husband always away? |
As a lawyer he would travel to courts in other cities |
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How do we know so much about her life? |
Letters-- Abigail wrote to her family and her husband frequently |
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What did she think about sex roles and the roles of women? |
Men and women should be reciprocal to one another, and women should be well educated and involved in management and politics. |
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Why did her husband move to France? Did she go with him? |
Her husband was appointed as a commissioner to represent the US in France--She did not go, but her son John Quincy did. She didn't see them for four years. |
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After her husband returned from France the first time, he plunged into a new job. What was it? |
He joined the Massechusetts Constitutional Convention and helped frame our first constitution. |
