How did the revolutionary war affect women?
While John Adams was helping to write our first government, the Articles of Confederation, his wife, Abigail Adams, wrote to her husband suggesting that political and civil rights of women be considered. But the time was not right for the political equality of the sexes. Women were still considered second class citizens when it came to their political and civic status. New Jersey even revoked its enfranchisement of women in 1807 because too many women were taking advantage of the right to vote.
