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Of all the words that spilled from Abigail Adams' pen, none are more famous than those of March 31, 1776.Â
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In January 1776, Thomas Paine sounded the call for revolution with his pamphlet Common Sense .
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This bloody event galvanized the colonists, helping to swing popular sentiment toward revolution.
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A descendant of John Ball, the medieval English preacher who led the first popular rebellion in England, George Washington led his own fight for independence in America.
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By all accounts, Jefferson was incomparably brilliant and insatiably curious.
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King George III saw the relationship of Britain and America as that of a parent to a child and asserted his claim on the colonies strenuously.
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Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination.
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James Callender launched a print campaign against President John Adams that would make the election of 1800 one of the nastiest in history.
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Abigail and John had six children — three daughters and three sons — four of whom would live to adulthood.Â
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John Adams expected great things from his eldest son, John Quincy.
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 Like young girls of her time, Abigail lacked a formal education, but from youth she was intelligent, well read, and outspoken.
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Learn about the career and life of John Adams, from his childhood spent on the family farm, to his law practice, and finally to his presidency.
