Round 11: Tossup 14

Women were urged to enter public service during this war by Esther de Berdt Reed’s Sentiments. The Peacefield House was expanded by a woman who warned that wives would “foment a rebellion” if they were ignored during this war. (15[1])An exhaustive three-part (-5[1])history of this war was written by (15[1])Mercy Otis Warren. During this war, A woman (15[2])codenamed Agent 355 (-5[1])aided the Culper Ring under (*) Hercules (10[1])Mulligan. (10[2])The Daughters of Liberty knit clothes for troops in this war. Molly Pitcher probably didn’t load a cannon at this war’s Battle of Monmouth. Abigail Adams encouraged her husband to “Remember the Ladies” (10[1])during, for 10 points, what war that Betsy Ross made a flag during? ■END■

ANSWER: American Revolution [or American Revolutionary War; or American War of Independence]
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