The crops were all destroyed and long gone. The south had battles on many fields that once grew various types of crops. Men went missing who once tended the fields for the crops to go. Many of them ended up injured or even worse, death. Plantations were left abanded and destroyed. Transportation was gone. Railroad lines had been pulled out or torn apart to prevent the south from moving supplies. Even walking to find a way out was very dangerous for anybody.
A slave is a person that belongs to another one and is treated as property. Serfs, I'm not so sure about this now, were renting the land out from the landowners.
I would say <span> D. a strict construction of the U.S. Constitution
They wanted a sort of loose interpretation. </span>
Answer:
4. Mary Hayes
Explanation
Became known as Molly Pitcher for bringing the soldiers water while under fire. She too would take her husband’s place at a cannon
2. Margaret Corbin
Explanation
Took over firing a cannon after her husband was killed in battle - was hit by enemy fire herself
8. Abigail Adams
Explanation
Worked behind the scenes to try to gain more rights for women and for slaves.
1. Deborah Sampson
Explanation
pretended to be male and fought in the Continental Army
3. Hannah Blair
Explanation
had a farm in NC where she would hide patriots and supply them with food and medical care
6. Mercy Otis Warren
Explanation
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
Explanation
Became the first African American woman, and the first slave, to publish a book of Patriotic poetry
5. Anne Marie Lane
Explanation
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
