1. REVOLUTIONS CH 6

2. Molly “Pitcher” McCauley

3. Key Terms  American Revolution / American War of Independence  Lexington and Concord  Second Continental Congress  militiamen / minute men  redcoats  Dunmore’s Proclamation  Thomas Paine / Common Sense  Thomas Jefferson  Declaration of Independence  Patriot / Loyalist (Tories)  Judith Sargent Murray (Ch. 7)  Abigail Adams (Ch. 7)  Eliza Lucas Pinckney *  Mercy Otis Warren (Ch. 7)  Nancy Hart Morgan  Betsy Ross  Molly “Pitcher” McCauley *  Deborah Sampson  Margaret Corbin  Phyllis Wheatley  Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman  Mammy Kate *  New Jersey constitution  Articles of Confederation  Charles Cornwallis / southern campaign  Yorktown  Treaty of Paris  Benjamin Franklin  John Adams  George Washington

4. Questions to Consider  What role did women, black and white, play in the American Revolution? To what extent did the Revolution become a broader argument about citizenship and participatory democracy for women and African-Americans?  How and why did the Americans win the Revolutionary War? What uncertainties and challenges did the new nation face in the immediate aftermath of the war?

5. If You’re Curious...  Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence by Carol Berkin  Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic by Rosemarie Zagarri