...November 17, 2015 Three Women that helped Advance Women’s Rights Abigail Adams made her strongest appeal for women’s rights in her letters of 1776. Abigail wrote “Remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.” She went on to write “Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.” Those statements stressed her concern for how the women would be treated. Abigail sensed the struggles that were to come by her statement “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to ferment a rebellion.” She understood the unfairness of making one group subject to the will of another. John Adams response of “We know better than to repeal our masculine system.” Did not please Abigail. It was obvious by her response in a subsequent letter. Abigail wrote “Whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to Men, Emancipating all Nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute power over wives.” That response said it all. It was obvious that she saw the hypocrisy in the Founding Fathers quest for equality. While they were fighting for freedom, they found it acceptable to suppress the rights of women denying them equal freedom. Abigail Adams was ahead of her time. She did not have a great impact on eighteenth century America but her ideas would continue to spread for generations to come. Women’s rights activists remained small throughout the first half...
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...document was brought about during the period of Enlightenment where many thoughts and ideas unfolded. John Adams and Abigail Adams were two very important voices leading up to the document that helped shape our nation’s liberty. Due to John’s job, which called for a great deal of traveling, John and Abigail often exchanged letters to keep in touch. The letters expressed ideologies to one another on political matters while John was away serving his country. The early 1800s were an age of reason and marks a time of the Enlightenment Era. This was a period that really got individuals thinking as they would join in groups on their beliefs. It was a movement of ideas...
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...life is like for people that don’t have the same rights as others? Or ever experienced unfair treatment for being different? Well Abigail Adams had that problem as well as all the other woman during the Antebellum Era. However, she overcame these difficulties with her attitude such as,“ Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance” (Abigail Adams). Abigail Adams strongly stood up to her husband, to men, and to America. Abigail Adams was a strong inspiration to women and all people around America in the late 1700’s to the early 1800’s, and she still stands as an inspiration today. Abigail Adams believed that all women had the equal rights as men. Because of that, she used her powerful writing abilities...
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...Nearly 150 years before the House of Representatives passed the 19th Amendment, Abigail Adams wrote a letter, dated March 31, 1776, to her husband, John Adams. She urged him and other members of the Continental Congress not to forget about the nation’s women when fighting for America’s independence. This letter was a very important first step in the fight for equal rights for women. Abigail was admired and respected in her time and her letters written to John Adams continue to show people of the world a perspective on life and politics during the revolutionary era. Times for women before the American Revolution were difficult and unjust. They were routinely excluded and kept silent, just as they had always been in times even before 1776. “......
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...Women in the War Tanya Bailey HIS/110 - US HISTORY TO 1865 July 8, 2014 Richard Alexander Women in the War Abigail Adams In the video, consideration of women’s rights, women played a tremendous role in the revolutionary war. Women provided their services by contributing in any way possible to the solders and the war. Abigail Adams was addressed as the first lady because she started a change that would affect all women in America. “As the colonial fight for independence from the mother country ensued, Abigail Adams was appointed by the Massachusetts Colony General Court in 1775, along with Mercy Warren and the governor's wife Hannah Winthrop to question their fellow Massachusetts women who were charged by their word or action of remaining loyal to the British crown and working against the independence movement” ("First Lady Biography: Abigail Adams", n.d.). As Abagail stood by her husband trying to ensure all women were loyal to the solders other women also put forth efforts to help with the war. Women had fundraisers to produce money so solders could have new shirts and uniforms. The revolutionary war helped not only the fight against England but women in the new world. Continuing efforts to come up with ways women of the solders could contribute, a door to door program was started. Women were walking to each house to collect anything for the troops. Everything that the women gathered either help towards bullets, clothes, food, and medical supplies. Clothes were...
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...Question 1: This political cartoon was made in 1800, the artist is unknown. During 1800, America had recently declared independence. The people of America were struggling to form a strong central government and often found themselves in a dispute about disagreements regarding the decisions made on taxes, slavery, and innovations in America. The political cartoon shows two scenarios of the same white man with an African American woman. In one of the scenarios, the white man is about to beat the African American women with what looks like a lash. The other scenario with the African American women, the white man is kissing the women. At the bottom of the political cartoon, it reads, “Virginian Luxuries.” These type of events were occurring in Virginia. During 1800 in the United States, Virginia was a slave state, the white man that appears on both of these scenarios is the master and African American women, the slave. The author of this cartoon printed the words “Virginia Luxuries” to make a statement about the masters and the way they could be cruel to their slaves and other days take advantage of them to please their needs. The author called it luxuries because the masters were living the best of both worlds. They could treat the slave with astonishing cruelty one day and the next make love to them. During this time period, this kind of actions with masters and their slave women was no surprise. The power that the master had over the slaves, which were simply seen as property...
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...The Nineteenth Amendment allowed the right for women to vote in America. This occurred due to an extensive period on the war for women’s rights. Women’s rights to vote completely changed the culture of America because it linked the population of women together and took the U.S. by storm, although some may say it didn’t affect culture because not many people were injured in the war for women’s rights, it is still one of the most culturally changing event in history. The women that started the fight for the right to vote in the United States of America were Anne Hutchington and Abigail Adams. Anne settled in Massachusetts with her family in 1634 and started to raise the issue of women’s rights in her colony. After gaining many followers she was banished from...
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...opportunities the new land promised. These privileges included land, religious freedom, and a political voice. Ideas of individualism and reason from the Enlightenment movement became the fundamental basis and driving factor for...
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...During the American Revolution the men were not the only people who fought for independence. Women of America joined the Homespun movement which supported the American revolution by spreading their support and creating needed commodities for the armies. The women made cloth and clothing for their families and soldiers instead of buying the British clothe and cloth showing their support for the revolution; showing the boycotting of British textiles and their support of the American army. This shows that there is much more to a revolution than war; it requires the backing of its people in all different forms. Most women did not fight and their way of supporting the revolution was to continue to work in the Homespun movement showing their support...
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... The Women’s Suffrage Movement. Before the Women’s suffrage movement started, (“Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John Adams asking him to "remember the ladies" in the new code of laws. Adams replies the men will fight the "despotism of the petticoat.”) This was written in 1776; Women were not treated as they are today. In countries even today women are treated as unequal with men, they are used and abused they are basically slaves to the men of certain countries. In the United States before this movement women were looked down on not only socially but also economically and politically....
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...Slavery and women’s inequality in comparison to white men were strong issues with no social backing. The American Revolution began the dialogue for these topics and should be duly noted for starting the discussion that would lead to their eradications. Abigail Adams wife of John Adams wrote a letter to her husband during the time of the American Revolution. The tone and language that she used clearly corresponded with the language and tone of the revolution thus backing how important the Revolution was towards social injustices. Not only did the American Revolution begin a dialogue on women’s rights but as well started to touch on racial equality. Foner states, “During the era of the Revolution, free blacks enjoyed at least some of the legal rights accorded to whites, including, in most states, the right to vote.” The recognition of social injustices during the Revolution, sparked a conversation that would eventually lead to the extinction of these...
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...in that British America felt that Great Britain’s new taxes on the colonies were upsetting their rights as Britain’s and disrupting what had been a peaceful existence without any previous interference from Great Britain. even though there were small groups that wanted their freedom and rights that would be new to them; like slaves, women, Indians, and separatists; the American revolution was still a conservative revolution in which British America felt they were beginning to be treated as second class citizens as their rights were being taken away. For of their time in the colonies, Americans were left without much interference from the crown. During the late 1600’s and half way through the 1700’s fight over territory in North America between Spain and the French and Indians left Great Britain in debt and a way to remedy this was to begin taxing the people in the colonies. Great Britain’s believed it was the colonialists duty to aid the motherland in it’s time of need. They used the stamp act to receive money from taxes on everything from paper to clothes. The colonies were outraged at their sudden taxes that first appeared in 1751 in the form of the Currency Act which regulated the issue of paper money in the colonies. They had no want for new rights or better ones as Americans, just to retain their citizenship. In fact, the goal was not independence but to keep English rights. Americans felt it was unconstitutional to be taxed without representation in the British parliament...
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...storms out of Congress when asked to sign the document. Pennsylvania votes in favor of independence, 2-1, but in reality, both John Dickinson and Robert Morris of Pennsylvania fail to appear in Congress on the day that the vote on the Declaration was taken. That left only 5 Pennsylvania delegates to vote on the resolution. Pennsylvania votes 3-2 in favor of the Declaration. In the movie, apparent-LEE, Lee does not sign the Declaration since he is back in Virginia acting as Governor. In reality, the man who gave us “Lee’s Resolution” and the conclusion to the Declaration of Independence, that is these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states, was indeed...
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...progressively fell under the supervision of men. Even though ladies could tend to animals in the field, deliver or advertise nourishment, reap, turn, and help spouses, their work kept on being unrecognized considering the moderate financial changes, making it hard to pinpoint an unmistakable or sudden move in the state of women's' lives. The next eras to discuss pertaining to the American woman is the Revolutionary and Early Republics era. It focused on the conviction that the loyalists ' little girls ought to be raised to maintain the standards of republicanism with a specific end goal to pass on republican esteems to the following generation. Women were relied upon to help advance the estimations of republicanism; as close and concerned spectators of youthful kids, they had an uncommon part in raising the cutting edge to esteem patriotism and to forfeit their own requirements for more prominent benefit of the nation. Considering this extraordinary part, ladies could get a greater amount of an instruction than they already had been permitted. Abigail Adams upheld for ladies' training, as showed in a considerable lot of her letters to her significant other, President John Adams. Some rampaged, taking an interest in riots that occasionally aggravated the serenity of frontier urban communities. A couple of distributed plays and sonnets announcing their enthusiastic perspectives. Those ladies, who might move toward becoming followers, were additionally dynamic, never hesitant, to express...
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...In 1636, thirty families from Pyaug (Wethersfield) were settled in Naubuc Farms, a tract of land belonging to Wethersfield on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River bought from the Native American Chief, Sowheag, for 12 yards of trading cloth. The Native Americans of Glastonbury were members of Algonkian-speaking tribes. They lived in clans of approximately100 individuals and each group was ruled by a sachem or chief. Clans took names from features of the land where they were centered. Naubucs lived in the plains to the east, the flat area at the north end of town. Nayaugs lived near the Noisy Water at the mouth of Roaring Brook. Wongonks lived at the Bend in the River behind today’s Town Hall, where the Connecticut River turned in the 1600s. The tribes were peaceful and farmed the land. In the summer, clans lived along the river in longhouses. In winter, they moved to the hills and lived in south- or west-facing caves. In 1672, Wethersfield and Hartford were granted permission by the General Court to extend the boundary line of Naubuc Farms 5 miles to the East, purchasing the land from the natives, forming Eastbury. By 1690, residents of Naubuc Farms had gained permission from the General Court to become a separate town and, in 1693, Glassenbury came into existence. The ties have not been completely broken: the oldest continuously operating ferry in the United States still runs between South Glastonbury and Rocky Hill, also then a part of Wethersfield, as it did as far...
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