Question

Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote: "I long to hear that you have declared an independency—and by the way in the New Code or Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."

Answer 1

The correct answer is Abigail Adams

Abigail Smith Adams notorious American First Lady born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, who, honoring New England's strongest traditions, left her country with a remarkable record as a patriot and first lady, wife of one President and mother of another. From a family of great prestige in the colony and of religious tradition, like other women of his time, he lacked formal education, but self-taught and endowed with acute intelligence, and met John Adams, a young Harvard law graduate, with whom got married (1764).