Fill In Sentences:
Revolutionary Women
INSTRUCTIONS:
Fill in each blank box with the word from the above list that best completes the sentence.
revolt
disguised
siege
suspected
Loyalists
banished
revenge
militia
radically
fared
Patriot
independence
emphasis
remote
legendary
1. The of the fort succeeded, and the troops took the enemy soldiers captive.
2. Patriots fought the Revolutionary War to gain from Britain.
3. For committing an offense, a soldier could be from a camp and not allowed to return.
4. Those who took part in the Boston Tea Party themselves as Mohawk Indians.
5. After Catherine Schuyler destroyed crops, the British got by burning her home.
6. The commander called out the to stop the British attack.
7. The Molly Pitcher was a camp follower who brought water to the troops.
8. Every hoped to gain freedom from British rule.
9. Women made good spies because no one them of spying.
10. Some left the American colonies to live in British-ruled Canada.
11. To help gather her father’s troops, Sybil Ludington rode to areas far from her home.
12. The Adams’s family well as Abigail Adams ran the farm and kept the family out of debt.
13. Southerners feared slaves would and fight with the British.
14. After the war, the new nation placed an on education for girls as well as boys.
15. During the Revolution, a few women took such bold steps as disguising themselves as men so they could join the army.
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Definition Matching:
Revolutionary Women
INSTRUCTIONS:
For each vocabulary word in the left column, locate its definition in the right column.
Type the number of the correct definition in the blank before the word.
remote
1. strong attack against a place held by the enemy
siege
2. freedom from the control or influence of someone else
suspect
3. to force to leave and not return
fare
4. to change appearance to hide who someone really is
disguise
5. the doing of harm in return for a wrong
loyalists
6. group of citizens who are organized to fight
revenge
7. well-known though perhaps exaggerated in history
militia
8. American colonist who wanted to be free from British rule
legendary
9. to believe to be so; to think likely
revolt
10. American colonist who supported British rule
banish
11. not near others; far out of the way
radically
12. to do; to get along
patriot
13. to rebel; to fight against authority
emphasis
14. stress; importance
independence
15. in an extreme way
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Crossword:
Revolutionary Women
Words
LEGENDARY
REVOLT
REVENGE
LOYALIST
SIEGE
REMOTE
PATRIOT
FARE
INDEPENDENCE
MILITIA
SUSPECT
EMPHASIS
BANISH
DISGUISE
RADICALLY
14
15
11
1
9
5
12
4
3
2
7
10
6
8
Across
2. well-known though perhaps exaggerated in history
4. to change appearance to hide who someone really is
6. American colonist who supported British rule
8. American colonist who wanted to be free from British rule
11. to force to leave and not return
12. not near others; far out of the way
3. to rebel; to fight against authority
Down
1. freedom from the control or influence of someone else
3. in an extreme way
5. stress; importance
7. group of citizens who are organized to fight as an army
9. the doing of harm in return for a wrong
10. to believe to be so; to think likely
14. strong attack against a place held by the enemy
15. to do; to get along
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Kids learning about Revolutionary Women in this issue will be surprised to find out that while women did not hold the front lines during the War of Independence, they greatly contributed to efforts to keep soldiers fed on the battlefield, lent their voices to political debates, and generally kept the home fires burning.
From patriots like Deborah Samson, who actually served secretly in the army, to loyalists like Margaret Draper, who kept publishing the Boston News-Letter after her husband’s death, this evenhanded account of how women influenced the war in big and small ways, laying the groundwork for the suffrage movement that followed much later, is not to be missed.
Equally surprising to kids will be the fact that many of the women who took action during the war were mere teenagers, like Sybil Ludington, a 16-year-old who rode alone 40 miles one rainy night to alert patriots of a planned attack. Other incredible tales of bravery like this make learning about Revolutionary women a high point of the study of early American History. Women even worked as spies during the Revolution, collecting valuable info about the other side and passing it to officers in dangerous acts of defiance. Learning about Revolutionary Women, for kids interested in this era, opens their eyes to a whole other side to this famous war, showing them how great men – as the saying goes – often stand on the shoulders of great women.
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Ready for Revolution
In 1775, Britain ruled 13 colonies that stretched along the East Coast of North America fr ...
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Serving the Cause
Women were forbidden to serve in George Washington’s Continental Army.
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Camp Followers
About 20,000 women followed their husbands to battle.
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Spies and Saboteurs
In wartime, it helps to know what the enemy is planning to do.
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Holding Down the Home Front
Life was not easy on the home front.
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Aiding the Cause
In addition to keeping the home fires burning, many women took on other work to help the w ...
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After the Revolutionary War
After the Battle of Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, Britain knew it could no longer hold on t ...
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