1). How were American women impacted by the Revolutionary-era War
for Independence?

Women participated by boycotting British goods, producing goods for soldiers, spying on the British, and serving in the armed forces disguised as men. The war also affected the lives of women who remained loyal to the crown, or was politically neutral; in many cases, the impact was devastating.

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the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.