The Daughters of liberty
The daughters of liberty were a group of women who were angry with Britain because of all of the unnecessary taxes being given to them, so they decided to rebel against the British by making homemade things instead of buying them from British merchants. The daughters of liberty consisted mainly of five women, Martha Washington born June 13, 1731 in New Kent County, VA, Sarah Franklin Bache born September 11, 1743 in Philadelphia, PA, Esther de Berdt Reed born October 22, 1746, in London, England, Deborah Sampson born December 17, 1760 in Plympton, MA, Maude Epperson who’s birthday is unclear, and lastly Abigail Adams born November 22, 1744 in Weymouth, MA. The group included 92 women, and was established in 1765, the …show more content…
The daughters of liberty helped with important historic moments and had many accomplishments, too. The daughters of liberty, while some women were loyalist they were patriots, they were loyal to the colonists, meaning that during the war they were against the British and they stuck with the colonists because they felt that the taxes from Britain were unnecessary. The daughters of liberty were very important to history, instead of doing what the other colonists did by resorting to riots and protesting they started to organize boycotts, which seemed to be working but then the merchants signed a non- importation agreement and instead of boycotting then started spinning bees, in which you spin yarn and wool to make fabric. The daughters of liberty accomplished things too, though some being that when they started to refuse to buy any British goods they made their own homemade goods and clothes, instead of cloth and tea, they dried raspberry leaves to make tea and used their traditional skills to spin yarn and weave cloth called “homespun”. They were all committed to only using items made by them, instead of items made by the British. From these materials they made clothes and other necessary things that they needed, therefore making a competitive industry
The daughters of liberty were a group of women who were angry with Britain because of all of the unnecessary taxes being given to them, so they decided to rebel against the British by making homemade things instead of buying them from British merchants. The daughters of liberty consisted mainly of five women, Martha Washington born June 13, 1731 in New Kent County, VA, Sarah Franklin Bache born September 11, 1743 in Philadelphia, PA, Esther de Berdt Reed born October 22, 1746, in London, England, Deborah Sampson born December 17, 1760 in Plympton, MA, Maude Epperson who’s birthday is unclear, and lastly Abigail Adams born November 22, 1744 in Weymouth, MA. The group included 92 women, and was established in 1765, the …show more content…
The daughters of liberty helped with important historic moments and had many accomplishments, too. The daughters of liberty, while some women were loyalist they were patriots, they were loyal to the colonists, meaning that during the war they were against the British and they stuck with the colonists because they felt that the taxes from Britain were unnecessary. The daughters of liberty were very important to history, instead of doing what the other colonists did by resorting to riots and protesting they started to organize boycotts, which seemed to be working but then the merchants signed a non- importation agreement and instead of boycotting then started spinning bees, in which you spin yarn and wool to make fabric. The daughters of liberty accomplished things too, though some being that when they started to refuse to buy any British goods they made their own homemade goods and clothes, instead of cloth and tea, they dried raspberry leaves to make tea and used their traditional skills to spin yarn and weave cloth called “homespun”. They were all committed to only using items made by them, instead of items made by the British. From these materials they made clothes and other necessary things that they needed, therefore making a competitive industry