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T4 - 6.4A: Lauren Spape, Rachel Hoenigman (Women Take Part in the War)

**THE WOMEN HELP MEN WIN INDEPENDANCE!** The 13 colonies, 1775-1783

"The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight." This is a quote by one of the many women who helped us gain liberty and independence in the American Revolution, Abigail Adams. Abigail wrote this during the colonists' bombardment of British-held Boston, at midnight on March 2nd, 1776. Abigail aided her husband, John Adams, in combat. She is one of the many women who helped in the Revolution of 1775-1783. In the 12 colonies, Molly Pitcher, Abigail Adams, Deborah Sampson, Margret Corbin, Betsy Ross, and many others made our contry independent.

Cooking, cleaning, and watching the kids aren’t the only thing women in the 13 colonies were capable of. Abigail Adams and other women proved that very well. Through out the war, Abigail aided her husband, John Adams in what ever he needed. She even helped some of the other solders along the fronts of the war. When a solder was injured by the British, she and many other females took him in and restored them back to health. Betsy Ross didn’t physically show her independence, but made a reminder to everyone that we could be independent and have liberty from Britain. She made our first American flag. This one flag even encouraged the men to fight even harder.

Molly Pitcher also helped the 13 original colonies win. She fought for several years to help. Molly brought pitchers of water to her husband and fellow solders at the front line, and earned her nickname. She also operated a cannon to help in the war when her husband, John Hayes, was wounded. Deborah Sampson disguised herself as a man, names Private Robert Shirtliff until her injury, when someone discovered she was a women. Margot Corbin was more than likely a nurse or cook until her husand was wounded. She took his place and ended up loosing an arm, She received a pension.

“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.” This is a quote [|Hannah Arendt] said. Through out the American Revolutionary war, women did a lot for the men at war. They wash clothes and uniforms, cook food for their families and sometimes brought some to the men at the fronts, and made sure everything was ready for the men when, and if they returned. Some women volunteered as nurses to help the wounded. They would bandage, amputate, stitch, or do everything they could to help the men fighting for independence.

The women of the Revolutionary War were equal in try, and succeeding to gain independence from Britain. Betsy Ross, Abigail Adams, Esther Berdt Reed, and many more women of the 13 original colonies did as much as they could, because they believed in the same things as men did. Many of them followed this quote, “Women can do just as much as men.”

Reported by Rachel Hoenigman and Lauren Spape, Tyrell, 4th period