HST 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Colonel Tye, Abigail Adams, Republican Motherhood
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Support for the war: 50% of colonists were patriots, 5% of colonists were loyalists, the rest tried to stay neutral until the war came to them. John adams: a founding father who left his farm in rural massachusetts for the continental. Army practices in the colonies: no war debt system, did not keep track of wounded/killed soldiers, crowded, unsanitary, and unplanned army camps. Women on the home front: republican motherhood: women would raise their children to take on the patriotic cause, support the new nation, and understand the idea of democracy. Abigail adams: provided for their families and sent supplies to soldiers, took on new hobbies (ex. Spinning thread, making bullets: attacked a merchant, took his key, and stole coffee because he was holding it waiting for prices to go up. Inoculated themselves and their families to protect against small pox. Identification: many colonists started to identify with other colonists as americans rather than being englishmen .
