The Importance of the women in the Revolutionary War

In the years during the Declaration of Independence, the resistance to the British was expressed in boycotts of imported products. The boycotts worked because the women would step into the breach and would provide all the clothe and food that couldn't be brought from overseas. The housewives were the family shoppers. the women's cooperation was the critical challenge without it they knew it was impossible to succeed... Tea was the most important drink in the battleground, of the Colonial America. Almost all of the homes had tea sets.

Women patriots joined enthusiastically in the boycott. When men were going to fight women had to take over their farms and businesses, and in some parts of the country endure life under an army of occupation. They had to work hard so they could provide food and shelter to their families. Abigail Adams once said "We possess a Spirit that will not be conquered. If our Men are all drawn off and we shoud be attacked, you would find a Race of Amazons in America."

In 1774, 51 women in, North Carolina, issued a public statement endorsing the boycott, when many men journalist said they we bad mothers, harlots, and heavy drinkers. But back home they we patriots and admired by most. Southern ladies would wear dresses made of homespun cloth to their fancy balls, and always joined their husbands and fathers while making political toasts and singing patriotic songs.