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e. Women in the American Revolution played various roles depending on their social status, race and political views. The American Revolutionary War took place as a result of increasing tensions between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies. American colonists responded by forming the Continental Congress and going to war with the British.
Battles/wars. American Revolutionary War. Anne Rowe Hupp (1757 – June 26, 1823) was an American frontierswoman of the Buffalo Creek Valley in Washington County, Pennsylvania. She led the defense of a small, isolated fort, Miller's Blockhouse, against a Shawnee attack, [1] for more than twenty-four hours in 1782 while she was eight months ...
Judith Sargent Stevens Murray (May 1, 1751 – June 9, 1820) was an early American advocate for women's rights, an essay writer, playwright, poet, and letter writer.She was one of the first American proponents of the idea of the equality of the sexes so that women, like men, had the capability of intellectual accomplishment and should be able to achieve economic independence.
Former slave Phillis Wheatley became a literary sensation in 1770 after she wrote a poem on the death of the evangelical preacher George Whitefield. [62] In 1773, 39 of Phillis Wheatley's poems were published in London as a book entitled Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. [63] This was the first published book by an African ...
This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total. 1770 books (2 C, 2 P) 1771 books (3 C, 1 P) 1772 books (2 C, 4 P) 1773 books (3 C, 1 P) 1774 books (2 C, 1 P) 1775 books (1 C, 1 P) 1776 books (3 C, 3 P) 1777 books (1 C, 1 P)
George Washington began courting Martha, who had become one of the wealthiest women in Virginia, in 1758. [2] They married on January 6, 1759, [ 9 ] making Patsy, age two, and her brother John "Jacky" Parke Custis , age four, stepchildren of George Washington. [ 2 ]
Lecturer and assistant professor of history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1969-1974. Kathryn (Kitty) Kish Sklar (born December 1939) is an American historian, author, and professor. Her work focuses on the history of women's participation in social movements, voluntary organizations, and American public culture.
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