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Hi today about Abigail Adams By and her occupation is
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that she was the first lady of the United States.
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Born November 22 November 22 8 and 17 40.
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Foreign way mouth massachusetts Bay Colony.
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She died october 28 18 18 in Quincy massachusetts best
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and she was best known for being the wife of
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President john Adams and her mother of President john Quincy
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Adams biograph her biography by graph.
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Where did Abigail Adams grow up?
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Well, Abigail Adams was born abigail smith in the small
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town of women massachusetts massachusetts at the time.
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The town was a part of the massachusetts Bay colony
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of great Burton.
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Her father, William smith was the mr of the local
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church. She had a brother and two sisters, so as
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you can know now that she has siblings.
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So her education was that she was a single.
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Since Avago was a girl, she did not receive a
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formal education only boys went to school at the time
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in history.
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However, Abigail mother taught her to read then, right.
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She also had access to her father's library where she
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was able to learn no ideas and educate yourself.
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Abigail was an intelligent girl who wished that she could
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attend school.
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The frustration over not being able to get better, a
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better, better education led her to argue for woman's rights
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later after in life.
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So now that we know that she is that only
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boys could went to school in time in history, however,
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Abigail's mother taught her to read and write was pretty
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good. So now it says marrying john Adams, so now
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we're going to learn about her and how she married
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john Adams.
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Uh so Abigail was a young lady when she first
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met the boy, which is john Adams, a young country
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lawyer. So now we know that he was uh so
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she um so she was so he was a country
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for you and he was really young when he did
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this. So john was a friend of her sister mary
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science over time john and Abigail found that they enjoyed
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each other's company.
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So what they're basically saying is when they would come
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over to each other's houses, they would enjoy them doing
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that and over time Abigail like john's sense of humor
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so she liked how he acted next to him and
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stuff like that.
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And um uh Avago also liked his amputation.
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John was attracted to Abigail's intelligence and wit so she
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was intelligent, she was not, she was kind And she
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was all this other stuff.
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I also wanted to say in 1762 began to engage
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to be married.
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Abigail's father like join thought he was a good match.
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Her mother however wasn't so sure, she thought Abigail could
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do better than a country lawyer.
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Yeah, little did she know that john um would one
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day be a president and then they found out them.
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So they got married after that and they delayed due
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to an outbreak of a small box.
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But finally the couple was married on october, so when
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they were married uh is the day I'll tell you
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which is october 25th, 17 63.
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And um just you know Abigail's father pres ein over
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the wedding, Avago and john had six Children including Abigail,
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john Quincy sous sous sonia, Charles, thomas and Elizabeth.
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Unfortunately, sausage onion and a bill Elizabeth died young.
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That's because they were as was common to those in
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those days.
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It was common to most Children, but luckily the other
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kids survived.
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And um so now we're going to be talking about
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the Revenue Revolutionary War in 1768, the family moved four
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point tree to the big city of boston during the
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time where relations between the american colonies angry getting tense
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events such as boston mass crew and john biggie and
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the, as you know, we've been learning about the boston
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tea party occurred in town where Abigail was living.
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So she was there when the boston tea party is
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happening I'm expecting.
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So john began to take a major rule in the
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revolution. He was chosen to attend the Continental Continental Congress
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in philadelphia.
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On april 1917 76 75 the american Revolutionary War began
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with the battle of the Luxembourg, Luxembourg tongue and conquered.
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So I'm also going to be talking about um, so
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now that we're gonna be talking about how john, so
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it's going to, this one says that it's um, um,
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just let you guys know, I'm also putting my own
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words in these.
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So it might not make sense to you, but somewhat
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it makes sense to me.
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So with john away in Continental Congress, a pickle had
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to take care of family.
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So she had to take care of all of her
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kids. She had to make all sorts of decisions, managed
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to finance is take care of the farm all by
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herself and educate the Children.
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She also had to miss her.
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She missed her husband terribly and he was gone for
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a very long time So I can agree and um,
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in addition to this, much as the war was taking
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place, but close by Part of her, the Battle of
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Leg and Jenkinson Hat was far in the 20 miles
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from her home.
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So that was pretty scary.
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But escaping soldiers hid in her house.
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Soldiers trained her in her yard.
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She even melted into Okay U tin.
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So those two make mosque bulls before the soldiers.
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When the battle of bunker hill was found a big
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awoke to the sound of cannons.
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Abigail and drunk when she climbed the near by hills
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have witnessed the burning of Charlestown and at the time
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she was taking care of the Children and family friend
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dr drums girls if warren who died during the battles,
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which as you know, a lot of people died during
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the revenue Revolutionary War.
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But I have a girl with write many letters to
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join so now we're reading So during that war Abigail
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wrote many letters to her husband john and about all
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of that was happening Over the years they will over
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1000 letters to each other.
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It is from these letters, they that we know what
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it must have been like over on the home front
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during the Revolutionary War, after the so after the war,
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the war was finally over when the british surrendered the
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Yorktown. So on October 19 1781, John was in Europe
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at the time, working for The Congress in 1783.
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Abigail, Miss John so much that she decided to go
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to Paris, she took her daughter nappy and with her
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and when joining John and Perez on the year, Avago
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met Benjamin franklin who she did not like at all.
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And thomas Jefferson, she did like, so she did like
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um she did like thomas jefferson, but she hated um
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Benjamin franklin.
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Soon Adams packed up and moved to London where Abigail
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would meet the King of England in 17 8 and
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17 88.
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Abigail john returned to America john was elected as a
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vice president under President George Washington.
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Abigail began became good friends with marshall Washington.
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Martha Washington.
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So as you know, Abigail became good friends with Martha
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Washington firstly.
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Jump and she also news new president George Washington.
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So how do you?
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And Um John Adams was elected president in 1790s and
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Abigail became the first lady of the United States.
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She was worried that people wouldn't like her because she
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was so different from Martha Washington.
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And Abigail had strong opinions on many particular issues.
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She wondered if she had strong opinions of many particular
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issues. So she wondered if she would say the wrong
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thing and make um people angry, desire her fears.
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Abigail did not back off her strong opinions.
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She was against slavery and belief that in the original
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equal rights of old people, including black people and women.
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She also believed that everyone had the right to a
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good election.
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Abigail always firmly supported her husband and we're sure to
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give him the woman point of view on issues and
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retirement Abigail and john so abigail and john um retired
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to Quincy massachusetts and had a happy retirement.
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So what happened was she died of a very bad
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tripod God fever.
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So that sounds really bad.
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But the day was October 28 1818, which is really
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sad. And since you already know it, if I told
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you at the beginning that she did die on 1818
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October 28 1818, she did not live to see her
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son John Quincy Adams becoming become president.
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So, and they're interesting facts about abigail.
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Adams is her cousin was Dorothy Quincy, wife of the
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founded father, john Hong hand cook.
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Her life, no love life.
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And her nickname was child was Naby.
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She was the first thing you could become called mrs
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President because she was most influenced overdrawn her.
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The only other woman that had a husband with some
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president bars and brush wife George H Point W.
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Bush with the mother George W coach.
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And that's all the facts.
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I'm going to give you today by