Abigail Adams, in a letter to John Adams:
"...I long to hear that you have declared an independency-and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.... If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment [incite; instigate] a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation...
Use the passage to answer the question.
How does Abigail Adams use the ideas of the patriots to support her cause?
by insisting that history has always been unfair to women
by claiming that women have the right to rebel if they do not have a voice in government
by comparing the existing British laws with the laws that the patriots feel need to be established
by declaring women to be independent from and having the same rights as men
Which one is right?
Abigail Adams uses the ideas of the patriots to support her cause:
by claiming that women have the right to rebel if they do not have a voice in government
Abigail Adams is tapping into the revolutionary spirit of the time by highlighting that if women are not given a voice or representation in the new laws, they have the right to rebel, reflecting the same arguments the patriots used against British rule. She suggests that excluding women from the legal and political process would justify actions similar to those the patriots were taking in their struggle for representation and independence from Britain.