https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb Natalie S. Bober en-us 2022-02-02 17:54:58 UTC 2022-03-29 17:23:07 UTC hello@padlet.com kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2042777566 Bober, Natalie. Abigail Adams Witness To a Revolution. Aladdin Paperbacks 1995.]]> 2022-02-11 16:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2042777566 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2042785251 Abigail Smith was born november 11th, 1744. Her parents were Elizabeth Quincy Smith and William Smith and she was born in the seaport town of Weymouth Massachusetts.]]> 2022-02-11 16:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2042785251 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2042799397 In 1959 Abigail Smith meets John Adams through Richard Cranch. John Adams was a lawyer at that time.]]> 2022-02-11 16:58:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2042799397 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051224181 In 1761 John Smith begins courtship with Abigail Smith. John Adams was 26 and Abigail Adams was 17. 

Quote 1: "John increasingly found "business" taking him the four miles to Weymouth. As his visits became more and more frequent, Abigail slowly began to find something strangely attractive about him."]]> 2022-02-16 16:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051224181 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051224387 On October 25, 1764 Abigail Smith married John Adams. She was almost 20 and he was 29. They said their vows in the Weymouth Parsonage and Abigail Smith took the last name Adams.

Quote 2: "Together, Mr. and Mrs. John Adams waved to the guests gathered in the doorway to see them off, then rode down the familer winding road toward Braintree and their new home."]]> 2022-02-16 16:06:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051224387 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051224678 On July 14th, 1765 Abigail Adams gives birth to girl, whom she named Abigail Adams. Abigail and her family would always call her Nabby.]]> 2022-02-16 16:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051224678 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051224876 On March 22nd, 1765, The Stamp Act was passed]]> 2022-02-16 16:07:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051224876 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051225034 On July 11th, 1767, Abigail gave birth to a son who she named John Quincy. She named John Quincy after her grandfather. John Quincy was born three days before Nabby's second birthday. 

Quote 3: "Now, with two children to care for, and John often away at court, Abigail felt the responsibilities of motherhood more keenly." (Page 33)]]> 2022-02-16 16:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051225034 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051225272 Susanna Adams is born is December 28th 1768. Susanna Adams is Abigails second daughter and third child. Susanna was born weak and frail, and after a year on Feburary 4th, 1770, Susanna passed away.  She was only thirteen months old.

After Susanna dies, Abigail Adams has a fourth child on May 29th, 1770. She names this child Charles. 

Two years later on Sempember 15th, 1772, Thomas Boylston Adams is born.]]> 2022-02-16 16:07:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051225272 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051225410 December 16th, 1773, the Boston Tea Party occurs. April 19th, 1775, Battle of Lexington and Concord begins revolutionary war.]]> 2022-02-16 16:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051225410 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051225642 John Adams leaves for Philadelphia on september 12th while Massachusetts was in the middle of a dysentery epidemic. Abigail writes to john that his brother Elihu was ill with dysentery. Elizabeth Smith (Abigails mother) caught the disease. Elizabeth dies october 1st, 1775.

Quote 4: On the morning of October 1, Abigail brought her mother tea, raised her head so she might swallow a few drops, then heard her gasp and saw her look up at her with " a look that pierced my heart and which I shall never forget; it was the eagerness of a last look" Abigail recognized "the last sad silence of a Friend" Elizabeth Smith died at five o' clock that afternoon"


]]> 2022-02-16 16:07:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051225642 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051226448 John Adams delivers a formal report to the president of Congress about his views on the policies and status of the European powers as they affected America. In September, John Adams was elected to represent Braintree at the Massachusetts Constitutional Conventioin and he was chosen to write the first draft of the Massachusetts Constitution. In October, Abigail got word from philiadelphia that congress had chosen John Adams sole minister diplomat to France. He would now be responsible for negotiating peace with Great Britian.]]> 2022-02-16 16:07:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051226448 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051226664 In October of 1782, the British general Cornwallis had surrendered around 8,000 troops. They marched out of Yorktown and their bands played the old English tune: "The World Turned Upside Down". The war had ended but it would be another two years before an offical peace could be concluded. In the September of 1783, Reverend William Smith, passes away. Reverend was Abigails father.

Quote 5: "Now Abigail wrote to her husband, 'If Congress should think proper to make you another appointment, I bed you not to accept it.' John's health was still suffereing, his children need his care, his advice, his instruction, and she felt 'unequal to the task of guiding them alone.'"


]]> 2022-02-16 16:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051226664 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051226784 On April 12th, 1789, that John Adams received official notification that he was the vice-president. John journeyed from Braintee to New York, and people who lived their and inbetween cheered him on. John Adams was officially recognized as the vice-president of the U.S. at the redecorated Federal Hall. This happend a few days before the arrival of George Washington in New York.
In 1791 a two party system comes to light: Federalists and Republicans.]]> 2022-02-16 16:07:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051226784 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051227229 On Febuary 8th, 1797, John Adams is elected the second president of the United States of America. He had run against Thomas Jefferson. John got 71 votes while Thomas only received 68. Thomas Jefferson became the vice-president because he was the runner-up.

Quote 6: "Abigail tried to put her emotions into words:'My feelings are not those of pride and ostentation. . . They are solemized by a sense of the obligations, the important Trusts and Numerous duties  connected with it' Several days later she pledged her support to her husband: 'I am my dearest Friend always willing to be a fellow Labourer with You in all those Relations and departments to which my abilities are competent, and I hope to acuire every requisite degree of Taciturnity which my Station calls for, tho . . . truly . . . it will be putting a force upon nature.' It would be hard for her to curb her tongue, but she would try." (Page: 180)]]> 2022-02-16 16:07:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051227229 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051227454 Alien and Sedition acts was passed 1798 by John Adams. The Alien and Sedition act was created so that people who weren't living in united states (aliens) would side with the French. This authorized the president to deport people, imprision them, and arrest them during the war. The sedition part of the acts was so that people could not print or publish false information.]]> 2022-02-16 16:08:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051227454 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051227721 John Adams ran for president again but lost to Thomas Jefferson. Despite of the Alien and Sedition acts, disloyal cabinet and his resistence to maintain an army, John Adams was thought to do very well in office and immediately after the election was done, it was found that on October 30th, a peace treaty had been signed with paris and he had avoided a war with France.

Quote 7: "But he had wrecked his career as a politician, for he had alienated some Federalists and split his party, and the other members of his party couldn't forgive him for it" (Page: 200)]]> 2022-02-16 16:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051227721 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051227993 When James Madison was elected president in 1809, he had immediately made John Quincy an ambassador to Russia. John had resigned from Congress and was currently practicing law in Boston. Abigail and John Adams didn't really want him to go.

Quote 8: "Abigail feared that she would never see him again. This son had been her 'support,' she told her sister Elizabeth. It was like 'takeing our last leave of him.' His 'tenderness and affection' made him particularly dear to her." (Page: 208)]]> 2022-02-16 16:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051227993 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051228228 Nabby discovers she has a cancerous tumor in her breast in the summer of 1811. She has surgery to remove her entire breast in early October. She was conscious during the surgery. It only took 25 minutes but dressing the wound took an hour. 

In 1812 Nabby realizes that the cancer had reappeared and was spreading throughout her body. Nabby makes the three hundred mile journey to her parents house. She arrives at the end of July and dies August 15th. Abigail is distraught.

Quote 9: "Nabby died on August 15, a few days after her husband reacher her bedside. She had just turned forty-eight. John called his daughter a 'monument to suffering and to patience.' Abigail had never known such anguish. This was a burden she couldn't bear. Nabby had been her 'closest companion.'" (Page 214)]]> 2022-02-16 16:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051228228 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051228443 In 1814, John Quincy signs the treaty refered as the "Peace of Christmas Eve" at Ghent, Belgium. This treaty ends the war with England. He was then named minister to the Court of St. James.]]> 2022-02-16 16:08:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051228443 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051228668 Abigail Adams developes typhoid fever early in october. On October 28th, 1818, she dies at age of 73. She had been married to John Adams for 54 years.

Quote 10: "John, gazing down at her, said simply,'I wish I could lay down beside her and die too." For a moment his palsied frame shook uncontrollably. Then he turned to louisa and led the distraught woman into another room to comfort her." (Page: 221)]]> 2022-02-16 16:08:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051228668 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051310544 2022-02-16 16:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2051310544 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2078460358 https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/stamp-act]]> 2022-03-04 18:47:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2078460358 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2090707769 2022-03-11 16:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2090707769 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2105956242 2022-03-21 18:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2105956242 kwiatale000 https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2106706344 2022-03-22 04:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kwiatale000/fh9wey6qdh8mssjb/wish/2106706344