By 1770, North American colonists resented the British government's new financial program as expressed in the Stamp
Act and the Tea Act, so they rebelled using both nonviolent and
violent ways. They were unsuccessful in their attempt to win their
own representative institutions. Their physical attacks on the
crown's officials, whom they tarred and feathered and whose
houses they burned, gained more attention. The organized armed
rebellion gained momentum after the dumping of the British East
India Company's tea in Boston harbor. The Declaration of
Independence in 1776 clarified the grievances of the colonists,
who won their eight-year war partially through their guerilla tactics,
French support, and help from some Native Americans. In 1789,
the first written constitution was ratified by the individual states,
unifying them into a single federal state and giving a new model of
a political structure with a balance of power among three branches
of government. The constitution also included a Bill of Rights
based on British and Enlightenment ideas for protection of
citizens' rights. These ideas spread to other parts of the Atlantic
world. In the new United States of America, however, citizenship
was by definition limited to males of European origin and some
other men of property. Women, Native Americans, people from
other parts of the world, and slaves received limited, if any, rights
to participate in government.
Summary

the exact role and status of women in the roman world, and indeed in most ancient societies, has often been obscured by the biases of both ancient male writers and 19-20th century ce male scholars, a situation only relatively recently redressed by modern scholarship which has sought to more objectively assess women's status, rights, duties, representation in the arts, and daily lives; and all this from almost exclusively male source material dealing with a male-dominated roman world.

women in mythology

unlike some other ancient cultures such as the greeks who had formed a creation myth where woman was a creature secondary to man and, more specifically, in the form of pandora, a bringer of unhappiness and vices, the romans had a more neutral approach where humanity, and not specifically the male, was created by the gods from earth and water. ovid's metamorphoses, for example, does not specify whether the first human was a man or a woman. at least in a physical sense then men and women were not regarded as belonging to a different species as in the greek world, a view often reiterated in roman medical treatises.

"they had a large area of land that they owned."

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire