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4. Mary Hayes
Became known as Molly Pitcher for bringing the soldiers water while under fire. She too would take her husband’s place at a cannon
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2. Margaret Corbin
Took over firing a cannon after her husband was killed in battle - was hit by enemy fire herself
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8. Abigail Adams
Worked behind the scenes to try to gain more rights for women and for slaves.
5. Anne Marie Lane
pretended to be male and fought in the Continental Army
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3. Hannah Blair
had a farm in NC where she would hide patriots and supply them with food and medical care
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6. Mercy Otis Warren
Wrote a play about the British who were blockading Boston. The play helped to turn some that were initially Loyalists into Patriots.
7. Phyllis Wheatley
Became the first African American woman, and the first slave, to publish a book of Patriotic poetry
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1. Deborah Sampson
She enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, pretending to be a man. She fought in four major battles till she was wounded, and it was discovered that she was a woman.
Answer: Charles Edgar Duryea
Sweden, Finland, Scandinavian countries such as Denmark-Norway
During WWll, with white men fighting overseas, African Americans were able to get better job opportunities, and a new law passed saying that blacks and whites had to be in integrated units in the army. But, when the war ended and black soldiers returned to America they weren't greeted with a hero's welcome and instead were treated like all other blacks- they were forced to be segregated. This change from almost equality to none at all really fired up the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950's and 1960's.
