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 …

…individual leaders of their community and as the war ended, they began to be treated as the white women were, with less and less independence. Regardless of this setback for the Indian women, the Revolutionary War was a turning point for women everywhere. The Revolutionary War showed the unending strength that a woman has and because of this, women everywhere started on their way to gain all of the individual rights they had always deserved.