USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -How did making fabric promote liberty? Women who made fabric had their own income to spend as they pleased. Making their own fabric enabled people to avoid buying British goods. Because women contributed to the family income, men appreciated them more.

Detailed explanation-2: -As dissatisfaction with British tyranny was growing, the Daughters of Liberty was formed as a way for women to speak out in the name of patriotism and freedom. They organized non-importation boycotts and spinning bees as a way to avoid buying British products and create American products instead.

Detailed explanation-3: -In August of 1768, when Boston merchants pledged not to import or sell British goods, there was a shortage in the colony of specific goods like textiles. To help ease this shortage, the Daughters of Liberty organized spinning bees to spin yarn and wool into fabric.

Detailed explanation-4: -From a local movement, the protests of the Sons and Daughters of Liberty soon spread until there was a chapter in every colony. The Daughters of Liberty promoted the boycott on British goods while the Sons enforced it, threatening retaliation against anyone who bought imported goods or used stamped paper.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Sons and Daughters of Liberty helped organize colonist dissent and resistance to British policies. The boycotts implemented by the Sons and upheld by the Daughters forced the British to understand how serious the colonists’ grievances were. As a result, their actions helped lead to the American Revolution.