Famous Women
This famous woman disguised herself as a man and enlisted in the continental army. After being discovered as a women, the American army gave her an honorable discharge and later a soldier’s pension.
Who was Deborah Sampson?
This term refers to the ideology that the role of women in American society is to train future citizens and instill morality, justice, and political wisdom into their children.
What is Republican Motherhood?
These women helped protest British acts like the Townshend Act and the Wool Act of 1699 by produce goods like clothing at home, helping to spark the movement of domestic production in the colonies.
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
This woman taught herself political knowledge by reading books from her father’s library. She urged congress to “remember the ladies” and give women rights when drawing up the code of laws for the new American nation.
Who was Abigail Adams?
This term refers to the subordination of women to their husband’s authority. Under this British system, women lost their legal and social rights, including in many cases the right to own property, freedom over the terms of their will, economic freedom, and representation in court.
What is coverture?
Founded by Esther Reed and Sarah Franklin Bache, this organization raised funds to support the revolution. “Treasuresses” are named within each county by this organization to collect funds and forward them to the governor’s wife.
What was the Ladies’ Association?
This woman was brought as a slave from Africa to Boston and learned to read and published her first poem in New England at the age of 12. She was the first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry.
Who was Phillis Wheatley?
This term refers to the concept that a marriage should be based on voluntary union held together by affection and mutual dependency rather than male domination.
What is a “companionate” marriage?
Women from this group petitioned the newly formed American congress to protest the “mistreatment of men who would not take an oath of loyalty” and hoped that lawmakers would protect the rights of women.
Who were the Quakers?
This woman helped found the Boston Committee of Correspondence and was a prolific writer of poems and dramas that supported the revolutionary cause. She would later publish a detailed history of the American War for Independence.
Who was Mercy Otis Warren?
A term coined by Benjamin Rush that asked that women be given a sufficient amount of education so they can pass down morals and ideas of liberty to their children.
What is a “suitable education”?
One Final Jeopardy
This woman told her husband, General Henry Knox, that you can be the “commander-in-chief” outside of the home, but in their home, they must get used to “equal command”.
Who was Lucy Knox?