In what ways do the selections make their appeals or arguments?
The Letter to John Adams and from Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Woman’s
Rights Convention both talk about how men should not be fully in charge of women and how in old time’s men were tyrants toward woman. (“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.” “The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.”) On the other hand in Letter to John
Adams, Abagail Adams is completely against men having any headship over woman, but in the Declaration of Sentiments, Elizabeth Cady Stanton isn’t completely against men.
2. What is the historical impact of each document? …show more content…
Woman are now allowed to vote, work, and own their own businesses and companies. They would never have been allowed to do such things back then. The woman that spoke their mind and went against the injustice that they suffered from, change the way woman were treated forever.

3. What are the writers’ viewpoints on social equality, and how does each writer promote it?
Abagail Adams does not want men to have equal rights as woman, she wants woman to be the focal point of the new Code of Laws stating “Regard us then as Beings placed by providence under your protection and in imitation of the Supreme Being make use of that power only for our happiness.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton does not want men to be completely over woman as well, stating “He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.” BUT Abagail Adams does not talk about equality for both men and woman, while Elizabeth does.
4. What ideas about women’s rights are presented in each selection?
Abagail Adams talks a lot about woman’s rights saying “If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not