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Abigail Adams

1. What do I already know about my historical figure? She was John Adam’s wife She helped John Adams giving advices

2. What more do I want to learn? How did she help John Adams ? What did she help for John Adams? How did she influence America?

3. Where can I go to find out more information? wikipedia, holt textbook, ABC clio

Date of Birth: 1744, November 11

Where The person is born: Weymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Family: Father- William Smith   Sisters- Mary, Elizabeth Mother-

Early childhood: -Very sick to attend school -learned everything from mother

Education: from mother

Adult Life: -wife of John Adams - helped John Adams giving advices -  first second lady of the united states and the second “first lady of US”

Important Events: Right before she died, she left these words, “Do not grieve, my friend, my dearest friend. I am ready to go. And John, it will not be long.”

Why is this person remembered or known? She helped out John Adams, and it is believed that John Adams was successful because Abigail helped him out in many ways.

What is the most interesting thing you found out about this person? Her letters--pungent, witty, and vivid, spelled just as she spoke--detail her life in times of revolution. They tell the story of the woman who stayed at home to struggle with wartime shortages and inflation; to run the farm with a minimum of help; to teach four children when formal education was interrupted.

What are the two most important lessons you or any other young person might learn from the way this person lived or lives? -In life, you need someone to support you in order to be successful

Was your person a hero or a celebrity? Hero is someone who did something that saved another person. Celebrity is someone who is famous for doing something outstanding. Abigail is not a hero because she wasn’t particularly courageous .

Historical Research Guide

What did Abigail Adams contribute into America?

What information do you expect to find during your research? I expect to find information about how Abigail contributed to America, and also how she helped John Adams. Also, I would like to know what dfferences would cause if Abigail did not have given her advices to John Adams.

What information resource(s) will you use first first to find the naswer to your question? I would probably use primary sources, such as her diary, so I can know what she did, or any history of Abigail's conversation with John. That way, I can know what she told John that helped him become successful.

Primary Sources: letters between abgiail and john- www.ourwhitehouse.org/primaryadamsltrs.html www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/adams/filmmore/ps_ladies.html-Abigail'sletter http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display.aspx?categoryid=31&entryid=253850&searchtext=abi&type=simple&option=all&searchsites=1,4,5,6,

Secondary sources: Wikipedia- abigail adams whitehousegov./about/first_ladies/abigailadams.html www.abigailadams.org first ladies biography- www.firstladies.org/biographies/first ladies.aspx?biography=2

Phase 3 Finding primary sources

Quotes http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2008/nr08-57.html http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/let29.asp http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(dg00124))

Biography http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display.aspx?categoryid=22&entryid=244881&searchtext=abigail+adams&type=simple&option=all&searchsites=1,4,5,6,

Audio of Abigail's letter to John Adams http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display.aspx?categoryid=6&entryid=298215&searchtext=abigail+adams&type=simple&option=all&searchsites=1,4,5,6,

Abigail's letters to John Adams and Jefferson http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=63 http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=278

http://www.thelizlibrary.org/suffrage/abigail.htm

quotes http://www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display.aspx?categoryid=34&entryid=335504&searchtext=abigail+adams&type=simple&option=all&searchsites=1,4,5,6,

3D Timeline Zip file

Phase 4 Finding secondary sources

http://www.pocanticohills.org/womenenc/adams.htm

http://www.abigailadams.org/

http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/abigailadams.html

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