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. She draws a parallel between the patriots' fight for independence from British rule and the need for women to have representation in the new laws being established. By arguing that women should not be held bound by laws in which they have no voice, she emphasizes the principles of representation and rights that the patriots are fighting for, thereby connecting her demands for women's rights to the broader struggle for independence and justice.
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. . . . Question Use the passage to answer the question. How does Abigail Adams use the ideas of the patriots to support her cause? (1 point) Responses by declaring women to be independent from and having the same rights as men by declaring women to be independent from and having the same rights as men by comparing the existing British laws with the laws that the patriots feel need to be established by comparing the existing British laws with the laws that the patriots feel need to be established by insisting that history has always been unfair to women 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
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