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Abigail Adams
Wife of John Adams, who was a farmer and wrote a letter to remind her husband to take care of the women who would not hold themselves bound by law. -
Sugar Act
"The Act established a Vice-Admiralty Court in Halifax, Nova Scotia to hear smuggling cases without jury and with the presumption of guilt. These measures led to widespread protest" -
Stamp Act
Required all legal documents, news paper and pamphlets to use watermark also known as "Stamps" -
Quartering Act
Colonial assemblies required to pay for supplies to British garrisons but New York assembly argued they didnt have to comply. -
Stamp Act Congress
Representatives from nine of the thirteen colonies declared the Stamp Act to be unconstitutional due to tax without consent. -
Declaratory Act
Parliment agrees to the repeal the Stamp Act and declare that they do have the right to tax the colonies. -
Townshed Revenue Act
Duties put on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint in order to help pay the administration of the colonies. -
Grace and Rachel Martin
These ladies were frustrated at how British soldiers were trating women and children, and attaacked them while they were carrying British documents to South Carolina. -
Tea Act
Parliment stops its tea from import duties and allows the company to sell its tea directly to the colonies. Was seen as indirect tax substidising a British Company. -
Intolerable Acts
Stripped Massachusetts of self-government which resulted in a response from thecolonies with a boycott of British goods. -
Hannah Arnett
"She butted into a meeting to which she was not invited, and turned the hearts and minds of the men in attendance. The men, citing poor battlefield reports of the ill-equipped Patriots. They were thinking about giving up and returning to the British side by signing a Proclamation of loyalty to Britain. Hannah called them cowards, which they might have become. She insisted that they not give up" -
Betsy Ross
She met with George Washington, George Ross and Robert Morris, which led to the sewing of the first American Flag. -
Margaret Corbin (Captin Molly)
Captin Molly was one of the camp follweres whose husband had taght her most of what he knew. One night when he was wounded she was put to assist in the battle of Fort Washington. -
Mary Hays
"Mary Hays another camp follower, accompanied her husband John, a member of the 1st Pennsylvania Artillery, into the Monmouth, New Jersey Campaign of 1778. During the battle she supplied water to the troops, thereby receiving the name "Molly Pitcher." Like Corbin before her, when Mary's husband was wounded, she assumed his duties as matross assisting the other artillerymen in the Company." -
Philadelphia Association
This wasthe largest women's organization, they raised money to give to thesoldiers. -
American Corps Of Light Infantry
"There were 52 women who were captured with the British garrison on the night of July 15, 1779 by the American Corps of Light Infantry" -
Patience Wright
when the prisoners were taken to England for safe keeping, she helped many escape. Currently has work in England at Westminister Abeey -
Catherine Moore Barry
She was familiar with her land and helped Geneal Morgan and recruited local patriots to join General Morgan's troop. -
Elizabeth Burgin
Helped people escape from prison and also brought them food and cheer to the lifeless souls. later on was also was awarded a pension for service in the Revolutionary war. -
Deborah Sampson
"It was her desire to avoid hard labor on the family farm that led her to impersonate a man and join the American army. Sampson first enlisted under the name Timothy Thayer early in 1782. When she failed to report for duty after a night spent imbibing at a local tavern, her true identity was discovered. In May of 1782, she re-enlisted, this time in Captain George Webb's Co. 4th Massachusetts Regiment, under the name of Robert Shurtleff." -
Treaty Of Paris
Ended the American Revolution.
