Women in the American Revolution

Grant women the right to vote immediately.

Remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them.

Allow women to serve in the military.

Appoint women to political office.

Women should only be educated in domestic skills.

Girls should receive the same education as boys.

Women should not be educated at all.

Education should be reserved for men of property.

Leading troops in battle.

Publishing plays and poems that ridiculed British authority.

Organizing women's suffrage movements.

Serving as a diplomat to France.

Spies for the Continental Army.

Political activists and pamphleteers.

Cooks, cleaners, and nurses who followed the armies.

Leaders of colonial militias.

She delivered a crucial message to General Washington.

She assumed her wounded husband's place in the gun crew.

She negotiated a truce with the British.

She organized a women's protest against the war.

She was granted special permission by General Washington.

She disguised herself as a boy.

She joined a women's auxiliary unit.

She was a recognized female officer.