Evidence From the Revolution
D2.His.16.3-5
Read each source, then answer the questions.
Abigail Adams Writes to John Adams
From a letter Abigail Adams wrote on March 31, 1776, to her husband John Adams, who was in Philadelphia as a member of the Continental Congress. …in the new Code of 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.
- 1. How does she want the new laws to treat women?
- 2. Which words show that she is making a request?
- 3. What does the letter suggest about how laws treated women in 1776?
The Boston Tea Party
An information text written for this worksheet. On the night of December 16, 1773, a group of colonists, some dressed as Mohawk people, boarded three ships in Boston Harbor. They dumped 342 chests of tea belonging to the East India Company into the water. They were protesting a tax on tea passed by Parliament in London, where the colonists had no representatives. In 1774 Parliament punished Boston by closing its harbor until the tea was paid for. Other colonies sent food and supplies to help the people of Boston.
- 1. Whose tea was it?
- 2. What does this text not tell you about the people who dumped the tea?
- 3. Why did the colonists dump the tea?
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