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 against British tyranny and the struggle for women's rights, asserting that just as the patriots reject laws imposed upon them without representation, women should also be entitled to the same rights and representation in the new laws being established.
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 claiming that women have the right to rebel if they do not have a voice in government 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 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
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