What was the most significant legal barrier to the political participation of women in the years following the Revolution?
A) the fact that women were given greater social and political freedom so rapidly that society was not ready for it
B) the continuation of coverture, a principle that meant woman were unable to own property and were prevented from voting
C) the radical changes the Revolution brought in America with the elimination of the family law inherited from Britain
D) Congress's insistence that women did not deserve to participate in the new nation because none had contributed to the war effort
E) the reality that most white American women needed to become indentured servants after the war to repay war debts
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