What Was the Significance of the Daughters of Liberty

question 19

Multiple Choice

What was the significance of the Daughters of Liberty?

• A) The group consisted of many radical artists who sought to advance women's rights through poetry and painting, as the new nation offered the promise of political gains for women.
• B) The group was comprised of British women who, in a series of pamphlets, argued that true liberty rested with the parliamentary monarchy of the mother country.
• C) The group is an example of how the nonimportation movement enabled colonial women to participate in the resistance, such as by no longer buying imported British goods.
• D) The group was revolutionary in that it was a women-led militia and helped fill a gap in male fighters during the early stages of the war before there was an organized Patriot army.
• E) The group demonstrated how, as with the Sons of Liberty, the resistance was located almost solely within Boston and proved unable to recruit members in the other colonies.

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