Match the person to the correct biographical information.

Question 2 options:

Worked behind the scenes to try to gain more rights for women and for the enslaved.


pretended to be male and fought in the Continental Army


She enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, pretending to be a man. She fought in four major battles till she was wounded, and it was discovered that she was a woman


Became known as Molly Pitcher for bringing the soldiers water while under fire. She too would take her husband’s place at a cannon


had a farm in NC where she would hide patriots and supply them with food and medical care


Wrote a play about the British who were blockading Boston. The play helped to turn some that were initially Loyalists into Patriots.


Took over firing a cannon after her husband was killed in battle - was hit by enemy fire herself


Became the first African American woman, and the first enslaved, to publish a book of Patriotic poetry

1.
Deborah Sampson

2.
Margaret Corbin

3.
Hannah Blair

4.
Mary Hayes

5.
Anne Marie Lane

6.
Mercy Otis Warren

7.
Phyllis Wheatley

8.
Abigail Adams