American Revolution Women and African Americans

AP US History
Unit II – revolutionary Period

What was it like for women and African Americans during the American Revolutionary?

PART I: Women in the American Revolution


Investigate women and their role in the American Revolution

http://www.bookrags.com/research/drinker-elizabeth-aaw-01/
Elizabeth Drinker Defends her Penn home

Deborah Sampson
Margaret Crobin
Mrs. John Christian Shell
Molley Pitcher

Look up the women on google and their name not wikipedia unless only site.


Who were these women when did they and when did they die?
What was their role in the American Revolution?
What did they do after the Revolution? Or what happened to them later?

Research what it was like for women during the American Revolution.
Take some notes
How did life change and how did traditional roles get obscured?



PART II is about African Americans One site you will go to is:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2narr4.html


I. This is the major site for African Americans during the Revolutionary War Years.


Describe what hardships African Americans faced fighting for the Patriots or British?
How did George Washington treat them?



Click on the list of names and pick two short and one longer soldier and tell me about their roles in the American Revolution, or hunt around the site for a couple of African Americans and take some notes on them.

Who were they? When lived and died?
Take notes on what they did and describe their hardships.
What happened to them after the revolution?

These are some of the more famous African Americans

Peter Salem,
Salem Poor,
James Forten,
Cuff Whitemore


II. Click on the Black Revolutionary Seaman---

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p51.html

What was it like aboard the ships were they treated different?
What about his uniform?
How did commanding officers react to them or what did they say about them.


Or some other soldier and tell me about them using above questions
George Liele
• Andrew Bryan
• David George

These guy help in the Revolution but we not soldiers, tell me who they were and what did they do?
When did they live?