Women played an important role in the American Revolution because they were fiercely active and they made gains for themselves.
In the colonial times women couldn´t do that much because the primary goals for a women were marriage and motherhood, and women were not expected to be participating in the war.
Despite their low right in society women did participate in the war.
They did alot of jobs like making the uniforms and worked at their homes as carpenters or shipbuilders while their husbands were at war.
Others transformed their houses into hospitals fro the wounded, one of the most famous helpers was Margareth Morris she did a great job in healing and herbal remedies.
On October 1774 , 51 women signed the Penelope´s Baker declaration to protest against English goods, they stopped drinking British tea and using British clothes. One difference between the Boston tea party is that every signer showed their identity by writting their original names.
A women called Synil Lundington announces the coming of the British and warned the soldiers about their arrival, this means that not only Paul Revere was the only announcing the coming of the British.
Women and men they both fought t the battlefield; women served as nurses, cooks and companions to their husbandas in the Continental Army. Their were some that fought with men at the battle.
Women like Deborah Sampson, Mary Hays best known as Molly Pitcher who did the work of her husband when he died.
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