Shaping the World: Conversations on Democracy
A Conversation with Thomas Jefferson and George Washington

Section IV - Democracy, Women and Slavery
 

Match these Women with Their Roles

Betsy Ross a female Paul Revere announcing the British’s arrival
Mary Ludwig Hayes    captures Tories who had murdered her neighbor
Nancy Hart   camp follower, loads and fires cannons
Abigail Adams supplied water to the troops becoming known as “Molly Pitcher”
Deborah Sampson  spy
Margaret Cochran Corbin  enlisted in army as Timothy Thayer and later as Robert Shurtieff
Margaret Hill Morris   seamstress of the America Flag

Sybil Ludington As a Quaker she was against war, but cared for the sick and wounded on both sides. 

Lydia Darragh organized women to raise money to purchase linen for shirts and delivered the shirts to the troops at Valley Forge  
Sarah Franklin Bache an advocate for women’s rights, “If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies, we are determined to foment a Rebellion…”