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Mind Map by Chloe McCloskey, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Chloe McCloskey
about 7 years ago
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Women in the War
- women added work to home (planting and
harvesting crops, making shoes, woving cloth (for
blankets and uniforms))
- "Handy Betsy the Blacksmith" -
making guns and cannons for army
- Women joined husbands (cared for
wounded, washed clothes, cooked)
- Martha Washington - husband of
George Washington
- Betsy Ross - sewed flags
- Mary Ludwig Hays "Molly Pitcher" - carried
water to soldiers; when husband was
wounded she loaded and fired cannon
- Sybil Ludington "Female Paul Revere" -
rode 2x as long as Revere and much
younger than most men
- Thinking about women's rights
- became more confident and
willing to speak out
- most men (in Congress) did not believe in
equality
- encourage women to campaign for equal treatment;
eventually to win it
- became more confident and
willing to speak out
- Martha Washington - husband of
George Washington
- "Handy Betsy the Blacksmith" -
making guns and cannons for army
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