The Battle of Bunker Hill was over. Abigail Adams, mother of four, was watching wounded soldiers limping by, on the road, bleeding. Abigail was scared. She did not know if her husband was dead or not. Then she reached deep and found her confidence, knowing that she could not give up now. Abigail Adams, one of the first feminists during the Revolutionary War, believed that women were equally important as men , and their thoughts should be acknowledged as much as men. Abigail Adams opened the door to women everywhere in our country which began the movement of equality of women and men,today.
Abigail Adams was one of four children born to William and Elizabeth Quincy Smith in Weymouth Massachusetts. Abigail had two sisters named Mary and Betsy, and a brother named Billy. Her father, William Smith, was a minister who went to college at Harvard, and her mother, Elizabeth Quincy Smith, was a Puritan leader. Abigail also idolized her grandmother, Elizabeth Quincy. Her grandmother was ahead of her time as she liked to talk about politics and books. As Abigail began to like to study politics, foreign news, and debates, her father started to see that she was interested in reading also, so he sent her to the Dame public school. Unfortunately, the family’s finances were not enough to keep her from working so she withdrew from school and was homeschooled. It was not unusual for girls to stay at home and help around the house. …show more content…
One accomplishment was that Abigail was the first American minister of St. James in England from 1785 to 1788, but Abigail and John Adams did not always get along. John Adams was in a different country when she was a minister, so after serving, Abigail moved back to Massachusetts to take care of her farm and work on women’s rights in the country. One of her famous quotes were, “Great necessities call out great