Women's Roles in the American Revolution

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Women's Roles in the American Revolution
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Women in the Revolution
Betsy Ross
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Many text books do not tell about the women that
helped in the war. If the women were married they
would stay home and do the house work, farming,
cooking, and some would even dress up and fight
in the war!
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Some of the women that were involved in the war
were Betsy Ross, Abigail Adams, Deborah Sampson,
Molly Pitcher, Margaret Corbin, Anne Baileys
Sybil Ludington, Margaret Hill Morris.
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Betsy Ross

• Betsy Ross had many roles in the American
  Revolution. Betsy Ross was a 24-year-old widow
  when she was asked by George Washington to make
  the flag.

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Deborah Samson
Deborah Samson was one of very few that dressed
up or disguised herself as a man just to fight
in the war. She was a willing volunteer to
oppose the common enemy.
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Deborah Samson
When Samson was fighting in the war she was cut
by a sword on the side of her head and four
months later she was shot through the shoulder.
Her sexual identity went undetected until she
came down with a brain fever.
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Rachel and Grace Martin
Rachel and Grace Martin also disguised themselves
as men and assailed a British courier and his
guards.
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Sybil Ludington
Sybil Ludington was known as the female Paul
Revere. Sybil went and summoned the men that
someone was coming. Sybil had to convince her
father to let her ride 40 miles to warn them.
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During the post-revolutionary period women
remained subordinate to men, but after the turn
of the century their subordination became
constructed in a new way. Broadly speaking, the
(republican motherhood) of the immediate postwar
period shaded into the true womanhood of the
early nineteenth century the roles are not
sharply distinguished.
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Bibliography

• The American Republic to 1877 Book
• http//userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets.html
• http//w3.arizona.edu/ws/ws200/fall97/grp11/part7
  .htm
• http//www2.lhric.org/spbattle/wohist.html
• www.vcsc.k12.in.us/tcr/liberty