Women of the Revolutionary Period Quiz

reposted from 5-9-2014

• The female Paul Revere who in 1777 rode twice as far as Revere to New York to warn the natives that the British were coming?   Sybil Ludington

• Wife of the second president who kept the homefires burning and delivered salt peter to the war effort.    Abigail Adams

• Woman who fought in the Battle of Monmouth when her husband fell from his wounds?  Molly Pitcher aka Mary McCauley

• Wife of general who stayed at Valley Forge and knitted socks for the troops?  Martha Washington

• The Legend of the five-pointed star was cut by this woman for a flag commissioned by George Washington?  Betsy Ross

• This woman's husband was the only widower to receive a pension from the Revolutionary War for his wife's service. She disguised herself as her brother and enlisted throughout the war?  Deborah Sampson

• A spy for the British, this woman pretended to sell items in the town square while counting the continental army troops.  Ann Bates

• This woman wrote six humorously seditious plays against the British? Mercy Otis Warren

• This woman was a founder of the Committee of Correspondence, who with Samuel Adams, John Adams, was a colonial writing club encouraging the revolution.    Mercy Otis Warren

• Who was the first published black author writing poems about learning and virtue, patriotism, battles, and the greatness of American revolutionary heroes.  Phillis Wheatley 

• This woman when commanded by British soldiers to prepare a meal killed them with their own muskets.   When British plans were needed, she disguised herself as a crazy man and went about the British camp gathering vital information for the Patriot cause.  In Georgia, War Woman Creek is named after her.      Nancy Hart.