History of the United States I / Unit 7 USH1 0908 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Remember the Ladies
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The idea
Abigail Adams wrote to John in seventeen seventy-six asking that in the new code of laws he remember the ladies, and not give husbands unlimited power.
In practice
John dismissing it as laughable, replying that they knew better than to repeal their masculine systems.
Where people slip
The request was made, recorded and refused. Teach the refusal, because it dates the argument.
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