Revolutionary Mothers

My past history books and social studies classes provided the basis to my knowledge on America's past events, like the Revolutionary War. These books, classes, and even historians that I was accustomed to, only told about the men's part in wars like this, while women were extremely overlooked. In my opinion, the women had just as great of roles as the men did in this era.
As the troubles between the colonists and the British began, colonial women soon learned that they could be of great importance to standing up to the British king. With the Stamp Act in effect and taxes on all sorts of…