kearea---Abaigal+Adams

__**//Abigail Adams//**__ **Childhood:** Born to Elizabeth Quincy Smith and Reverend William Smith, Abigail’s lineage reeked of strong political pedigree. Her mother Elizabeth hailed from the reputed Quincey family that boasted of strong ecclesiastical ancestry. Her father, William Smith was a liberal Congregationalist just like her forefathers and was held in great esteem. Abigail was a frail child, something that interfered with her formal schooling, a regret that lived and died with her.
 * Born: 1744 - 1818**

Career: First Lady Of The United States, Political Advisor, Women's Rights Activist

**Background** : Wife of the second President of the United States, Abigail Adams is an example of one kind of life lived by women in colonial, Revolutionary and early post-Revolutionary America. While she's perhaps best known simply as an early First Lady (before the term was used) and mother of another President, and perhaps known for the stance she took for women's rights in letters to her husband, Abigail Adams should also be known as a competent farm manager and financial manager.

Jobs: Abigail really did not work she was the first lady

Education: Although Abigail failed to attend any formal schooling just like her two sisters, Mary and Betsy, her mother took great care to teach her daughters to read, write and cipher. However, much of Abigail’s significant edification came from scouring the large libraries of her father and grandfather that opened her doors to the enlightened world of English and French literature, Bible, history, philosophy, essays, poetry and more. Her mother and grandmother influenced much of her social graces and etiquettes that eventually played a major role in making her one of the most influential women of her day.

Achievements: In a letter, dated March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams reveals an awareness of sexual inequality and even warns her husband what his course of action will bring about. It is obvious that Abigail is speaking for other women as well as herself as she uses //we// in her threat, indicating that woman's rights advocates were alive and well in the U.S. at least 200 years before the period of the 1970s that HIStorians erroneously named //the second wave of feminism//.