Women in the 1600-1877

One of the two themes I have chosen is how the women were treated before, during, and after the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and what the women’s role was as a “person”. As Zinn talks about how women were thrust back more and more from the public life, he brings up Julia Spruill, adviser on Indian Affairs for the governor of Georgia, James Oglethorpe, she reports, “the necessities of war brought women out into public affairs. Women formed patriotic groups, carried out anti-British actions, and wrote articles for independence. They were active in the campaign against the British tea tax”. Spruill also added, “They organized Daughters of Liberty groups, boycotting British goods, urged women to make their own cloths and buy only American-made things.”

Its obvious that women wanted as much freedom from the British as the men did, I mean, hell, the women organiz

Take Hillary Clinton for an example, during her husband’s presidency, she was trying to get a medical program up and running and maybe be seceded in a short and a long-term idea. Maybe other women will step up to the plate to challenge the “man”.

ed, grouped, and did patriotic things just as the men did. Were women over looked by many of the men? Or where they also thought as men and women combining to become one, one as a nation to defeat the British? I think that most of the men over looked the women just because the women had no say, had no leadership, and had no means to life except servants to their husbands and bear children. Also, I don’t think that the men would allow the women to become that powerful and be allowed to a major part in a war that the women would not fight in, although some women did fight.

Another interesting point that I would like to discuss is how George Washington’s wife, Martha, could come see George during the Revolutionary war, and not be thought upon as a prostitute. Zinn points out that “While poor women, in the later years of fighting, went to army encampments, helped, and fought, they were represented last as prostitutes, whereas Martha Washington was given a special place in history books for visiting her husband at Valley Forge.” Does a women, or a man, have to be well known for the wife to come visit a man and not be thought upon as a prostitute? I think its all clear that the higher class could get away with much more than the lower and middle class women could.

As all good things come to an end for the men, the women started to rebel and soon the man’s world was flipped up side down. Say if a man from1825 came to live in the present life, I wonder what he would do if he knew that some of today’s women are leaders in major companies that play a important role in our society. Would he accept the difference? Or

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