Abigail Adams supports her cause by claiming that women have the right to rebel if they do not have a voice in government. She parallels the patriots' struggle for independence from British rule with women's demand for representation and rights, emphasizing that just as the patriots seek freedom from oppression, women should also be granted their rights and representation in the new laws being established.
Use the excerpt to answer the question. . . . 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. . . . —Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams How does Abigail Adams use the ideas of the patriots to support her cause? (1 point) Responses by insisting that history has always been unfair to women by insisting that history has always been unfair to women 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 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
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