The Revolutionary War was a time of great change in the
world, people, and how things were done. One of the biggest impacts on the
revolutionary war was women. They were the voices that everyone didn’t want to
here but they knew what to say and when to say it. A lot of people didn’t think
women where very good at anything, and didn’t know what they were talking
about. Women were treated more like “things” than actually human beings. But
why was that? They don’t deserve that. So why were women treated so differently
than women now, they weren’t much different.
Women in the Revolutionary War were treated with respect but
they didn’t have a voice in anything. This is because women were considered too
simple to understand complex military strategy during the American Revolution,
me spoke freely around them. Thus, the made great spies, providing food and
peddling wares to enemy camps while listening for important information (Pavao and
Pavao) .
Women knew what they were doing during the revolutionary war, and no one
understood that they were smarter than they gave them credit for.
For recreational purposes in the Revolutionary War women
didn’t get to do a lot of things for fun. They found fun in cleaning and doing
housework because that was all they knew. Women in this time period work, and
have great times with their lives, but some just stay at home with their kids.
This is kind of like the people of this time period the men worked and the
women didn’t. Women were too busy cleaning and being housewives to truly do
anything for fun (Women in the Revolutionary War ) . Women in these
times do have the time to have a good time and do not spend the bulk of their
time at home. But this was just the way that women and their families did
things.
Even though they didn’t get out of the house much. Most
women during the Revolutionary War period got married at a young age. People in
this time period get married before they turn 35 (Trunk) . While in the
Revolutionary War it was anywhere between 10-18 (Lavender) . A lot of people would find this strange,
because most of them wouldn’t even consider getting married that young. A lot of
the reasons would be being that they still have to go to school, they’re not
ready, and a lot of them have a life beyond a housewife they are looking
forward to. Not saying being a housewife is a bad thing to be but a lot of
women have dreams after high school and college they would like to achieve
before marriage.
Even though women weren’t treated
with a lot of respect, didn’t have the time to do many things for fun, and got
married at a young age. They did have a lot of roles in the Revolutionary War. Women
marry, raise a family, manage their households efficiently, and, above all
else, obey their husbands (Zeinert) . Sounds like an
interesting life to live. Most people in this time don’t do anything to strict
guidelines, they live their lives more free with less rules. But back in this
time women were treated strictly because no one thought they were able to
handle a lot of harsh situations. Most women in this period lived either just
as long as people now or died early from disease.
They lives they lived were very
different but also a little similar to the way American women live now. Even
though it is hard to understand why we are so different it is easy to see the
similarities also. It is hard to realize how much we do have because we just
have it. Whereas when you think about the women of the revolutionary war they
didn’t have what we had. So it makes you stop and think about how much you
actually have, and how little they had, and makes you actually want to be
thankful for everything you have in life that they helped you get.
