The American Revolution's changes are explored.
The American Revolution brought many changes to men and women, regardless of race or class. One of these changes was an increased emphasis on the importance of education.
What specific results of the American Revolution created an increased need for women to be educated? Links are also given.
How did race and class affect access to education?
How did race and class affect access to education? Research is listed for the American Revolution.
Southern women's history from 1800-1860 is examined.
What was the relationship between African-American women and white women like in the South? Do you think slavery helped Southern white women conform to ideals of domesticity and True Womanhood? If so, how?
Gender roles from 1800-1860 are briefly explored.
How did women justify their involvement in reform movements in light of their belief in the ideology of true womanhood? Do you think these two ideas fit together logically? Do you think most women really believed they should be submissive, virtuous, and pure?
Women and labor from 1800-1860 is emphasized.
The transition from a household to capitalist economy had important effects on women. In the colonial and early American periods, women had helped to provide for the family through household production such as keeping chickens, making butter, etc. After the advent of industrialization, work was increasingly separated from the ho ...continues
Pedestal, Loom, and Auction Block 1800-1860 is the period of focus for this posting.
• What do you think her day to day life (in that particular era) was like for women?
Expansion, reform, and civil war, 1840-1865
What were some of the roles that Northern and Southern women filled during the Civil War? How did these roles support or undermine traditional gender expectations?
Civil War era women’s involvement in reform movements is debated.
This question is posed: Do you think women’s involvement in reform movements enhanced their role in public life? Why or why not?
Civil War 1840-1865 effects on women are explored.
This posting offers the most significant consequences of the Civil War for African-American, Native American women, and white women.
