Final answer:
Women contributed to the revolutionary cause in many ways, but they did not replace their husbands in political offices, which is the correct answer to the student's question. The correct option is 3.
Step-by-step explanation:
The question asks which of the following was not a way in which women contributed to the revolutionary cause, offering five options: participating in crowd actions against merchants accused of hoarding goods, selling homemade goods to the army, replacing their husbands in political offices, spying on the British army, and fighting in the war.
During the Revolutionary War, women played crucial roles. The tasks that women performed included maintaining their homesteads, producing homespun cloth and food, participating in acts of protest against hoarding merchants, serving as camp followers that acted as cooks, washerwomen, and nurses, and a few even engaged in combat.
Additionally, women raised money to support the soldiers, as seen with the actions of patriot women in Philadelphia. However, during that time, women did not hold government offices, as their roles in society and the limitations placed upon them did not permit such positions of political power.
Therefore, the correct answer to the question is that option 3, 'replacing their husbands in political offices,' was not a way in which women contributed to the revolutionary cause. The correct option is 3.