American Revolution Impact On Women

Women have been the slave of man for many generations. Women must get married at a certain age, and do what their husbands say. They must have children, cook for the family, and clean for the family. For some years, if the women’s husband died, they were a widow and basically shunned from society. Once the revolution came though, that was when women started to really make their mark in America. The Revolution had both a positive and negative impact in women because though it paved the way for improvements on female education, politics, and economic opportunities; that also meant that there would be a lot of setbacks as well. Though there were setbacks, these three improvements gave women the tools they needed to lay the foundation for the Women’s …show more content…
Some of these women did the best they could to help the rebellion while staying at home. Following in the footsteps of the group Sons of Liberty, the Daughters of Liberty also helped boycott British goods. These women stitched and wove their own clothes, which helped make sure that the British were losing money when they were importing clothes. This boycott also helped Virginia planters who had an abnormally large debt to Britain. In Give Me Liberty, it talked about how George Washington, reflecting Virginia planters’ concern about their growing burden of debt, gave “the extravagant man” an opportunity to retrench his expenses” by reducing the purchase of these British goods. Washington also went to go on saying that due to this reduction of goods, the Virginia planters are able reduce a considerable amount of debt while being able to maintain their sense of …show more content…
For women, marriage was a contract that informed women that their lives were controlled by their husbands. As stated in Give Me Liberty, “women’s rights nonpolitical, deriving from their roles as wives and mothers.” Men thought they were submissive and irrational, and that made them unfit to control their own citizenship. Fortunately for women, the idea of Republican Motherhood helped women start to gain the independence that women desired. Republican Motherhood emerged when John Quincy Adams talked about the important role women have in the training of their children. In Benjamin Rush agreed, saying that women needed the proper education to be able to train their sons for the future. The idea of republican motherhood not only gained some education, but also independence. The ideal of marriage being between an equal union held together by love and mutual agreement, not complete male authority. Abigail Adams recommended to her husband John Quincy that men should willingly give up “the harsh title of Master.” TALK ABOUT ABIGAIL