Letter to John Adams

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Across
  1. 1. The “Code of Laws” John Adams was helping draft for the new _____.
  2. 5. Political outcome being debated while Abigail wrote her letter.
  3. 7. Abigail compared unchecked male authority to this style of rule.
  4. 8. John Adams responded partly with humor and mild _____.
  5. 11. Social system Abigail implicitly challenged in warning men against “unlimited power.”
  6. 12. Enlightenment concept underpinning natural-rights arguments in the letter.
  7. 14. Abigail’s critique anticipated later nineteenth-century women’s rights _____ .
  8. 16. The letter illustrates tensions within Enlightenment universalism and social _____.
  9. 18. Intellectual movement shaping both revolutionary rhetoric and Abigail’s critique.
  10. 20. Abigail criticized laws placing excessive power in husbands’ _____.
  11. 24. Reform movement linked philosophically to expanding human rights discourse.
  12. 25. Contradiction between revolutionary liberty rhetoric and women’s legal status.
  13. 26. Political philosopher whose natural-rights ideas echo throughout revolutionary correspondence.
  14. 27. Abigail warned that arbitrary male authority resembled this.
  15. 28. Legal condition Abigail feared women would remain under without reform.
  16. 29. English common-law doctrine erasing married women’s legal identity.
Down
  1. 1. Emotional and moral perspective emphasized in Abigail’s political writing
  2. 2. Women lacked this formal political privilege in revolutionary America.
  3. 3. Historians describe women’s prescribed role using this “_____ sphere” ideology.
  4. 4. Revolutionary ideal Abigail argued should apply more universally.
  5. 6. Adams wrote from this continental legislative body in Philadelphia.
  6. 9. Revolutionary rhetoric often contrasted liberty with this condition of subjugation.
  7. 10. Abigail’s famous instruction to John: “Remember the _____.”
  8. 13. Colonial demand complicated by Abigail’s appeal for women’s inclusion in governance.
  9. 15. Revolutionary-era intellectual and close correspondent of Abigail Adams.
  10. 17. Abigail Adams’s arguments are often interpreted as proto-_____ thought.
  11. 19. Phrase completing the revolutionary grievance: “_____ without representation.”
  12. 21. Abigail suggested women might “foment a _____” if denied representation.
  13. 22. The correspondence belongs to the broader intellectual history of the American _____.
  14. 23. Historian Linda Kerber famously analyzed the ideology of “Republican _____.”