REVOLUTIONSCH 6

Molly “Pitcher” McCauley

Key Terms

American Revolution / American War of Independence

Lexington and Concord Second Continental Congress militiamen / minute men redcoats Dunmore’s Proclamation Thomas Paine / Common Sense Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence Patriot / Loyalist (Tories) Judith Sargent Murray (Ch. 7) Abigail Adams (Ch. 7) Eliza Lucas Pinckney * Mercy Otis Warren (Ch. 7) Nancy Hart Morgan

Betsy Ross Molly “Pitcher” McCauley * Deborah Sampson Margaret Corbin Phyllis Wheatley Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman Mammy Kate * New Jersey constitution Articles of Confederation Charles Cornwallis / southern

campaign Yorktown Treaty of Paris Benjamin Franklin John Adams George Washington

Questions to Consider

What role did women, black and white, play in the American Revolution? To what extent did the Revolution become a broader argument about citizenship and participatory democracy for women and African-Americans?

How and why did the Americans win the Revolutionary War? What uncertainties and challenges did the new nation face in the immediate aftermath of the war?

If You’re Curious . . .

Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence by Carol Berkin

Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic by Rosemarie Zagarri