so so one of those people was baltimore journalist hezekiah niles and he reached out to john adams and said, hey, dude, what went down in 1776 and john adams had spent a long time thinking about this of course, and he had a been talking with corresponding with thomas jefferson about this very topic off and on for the better part of almost a decade and so he had a very prepared answer for this and it has become an answer that is there's a couple of there's a series of letters that he wrote to jefferson about this and also, to his response to niles which has framed how we remember think about the revolution. and written about the revolution for a very long time since 1815 and 1818, but definitely in the in the last generation or so and i'll get into that a little bit here in a minute. so this is what john adams said and remember he looks like this it's important. i have his little elderly picture. it's portrait here because i'm gonna show you a younger version of john adams, which is a little bit different um than then him in so he said, the colonies had grown up under constitutions of g

so one of those people was baltimore journalist hezekiah niles and he reached out to john adams and said what went down in 710 1976 and john adams a long time thinking about this and he had been talking with corresponding with thomas jefferson about this very topic on and on for the better part of almost a decade . he had a very prepared answer and it has become an answer that there's a series of letters he wrote to jefferson about this and also his response to niles. which has framed how we remember, think about the revolution and written about the revolution for a long time. since 1815 and 1818 but definitely in the last generation or so and i'll get into that a bit. this is what john adams says and remember he lookslike this . i have this elderly ouportrait here because i'm going to show you a younger picking up teacher of john adams which is different than him in 1818 nd. he said the colonies have grown up in competition from government, theirs were so rcgreat a variety of religions, or composed of so many different nations, customs manners and habits or so little resemblance to thei