She should not be known as the wife of one president, (John Adams), and the mother of another ,(John Quincy Adams), but as a woman ahead of her time. ... Abigail's name was originally Abigail Smith. ... Though they lived well, the Smiths had no fortune (pg 3). ... She also met people like John Jay and Martha Washington. ... She should not be only known for being the wife of John Adams and the mother of John Quincy Adams, but as a woman ahead of her time. ...

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The British now targeted the two people that had begun the revolution, Samuel Adams and John Hancock. ... He followed the profound thought of Adam Smith, the "Father of Modern Economics" also attacked mercantilism in 1766. Smith, "To prohibit a great people, however, from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in a way that they judge most advantages to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind." While John Hancock, who was a smuggler in Boston represented the rich, who opposed the British because...

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John Adams is quoted as saying that a "full one third were adverse to the Revolution an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English the middle one third were rather luke-warm." ... Paul Smith estimated that about 19,000 men actually fought with the British against the rebels and about 20 percent of white Americans could be classified as loyalists. (Smith, 269) On the battlefield, it was the fighting between the loyalist Tories and the continental rebel armies that were the most hostile. ...

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John Adams is quoted as saying that a "full one third were adverse to the Revolution an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English the middle one third were rather luke-warm." ... Paul Smith estimated that about 19,000 men actually fought with the British against the rebels and about 20 percent of white Americans could be classified as loyalists. (Smith, 269) On the battlefield, it was the fighting between the loyalist Tories and the continental rebel armies that were the most hostile. ...

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Entrepreneurship is the path I want to embark in life, so witnessing Adam Smith advocate laissez-faire in the changing economic system of the time is something that catches my interest. ... Another one of my favorite works of art from Romanticism is, The Hay Wain, by John Constable. ...

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