American Revolution

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American Revolution

Jim Jackson
J. Parsley
4/18/98
THE DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY
The active participation of women in the Revolutionary War had an effect on the outcome. Mass political mobilization was a trademark of the protest leading to the independence of the colonies. Women’s role in this mobilization was in the church, market, and family. Women also formed volunteer societies to provide for the soldier’s material needs. Women also displayed acts of heroism on the battlefield. Despite these facts that are presented in our textbook of the important role women played in Revolutionary War effort, the image of the woman’s role in the American Revolution has been distorted by popular culture including films and television shows.
The colonial woman did play an important role in political mobilization to independence. Women often fused politics with religion, thus making the church a political institution. With preachers often theologically interpreting the struggle against the British each Sunday women often constituted the majority of the congregation. These women would participate in large public spinning events. These spinning events would often start with a church service, and the clergy often received the results of the spinning.
Women as shopkeepers and consumers also had political choices to be made in order to support the independence movement. Women merchants were pressured to sign onto the associations, which was a promise to boycott British goods. Some refused such as Anne and Betsy Cummings of Boston, and they found their names published in the local newspapers as loyalists. Women were also expected to stop drinking British tea and they were to boycott British fashions. Many women made their own clothes for themselves and thei...

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