Brenda Gamboa SOC 303 The Family 9/29/16 Assignment #1 Family life in the United States during the 19th century was quite similar yet very different to how it is today. For instance‚ the modern family consisted of the breadwinner father and the homemaker mother however‚ the industrialization period that took place created a number of diverse family forms. It greatly affected men‚ women‚ and children in all different social classes due to the fact that the United States economy was transformed from
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Chapter 8---Creating a Republican Culture (1790-1820) I. The Capitalist Commonwealth A. Banks‚ Manufacturing‚ and Markets a) Banking and Credit: 1. For merchants‚ farmers‚ and political leaders‚ republicanism meant capitalism. 2. 2nd National Bank was chartered in 1816 for 20 yrs. To finance mercantile enterprises. 3. The Panic of 1819: state banks over-issued notes‚ sparked by a sharp drop in world agricultural prices Business cycle—the periodic expansion and contraction of profits
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few precious and private moments from the never-ending days and too-short nights of the hectic‚ domestic servitude that is motherhood‚ and rarely ever does one succeed. However‚ in “Daystar‚” a confessional poem that relies heavily on the poetic devices of connotation and imagery to describe the loneliness and weariness of a young mother who feels trapped in her domesticity‚ poet Rita Dove does just that‚ however briefly – she finds “a little room for thinking” amid the chaos and clutter of an otherwise
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were denied some of the key rights enjoyed by male citizens. For example‚ married women couldn’t own property and had no legal claim to any money they might earn‚ and no female had the right to vote. Women were expected to focus on housework and motherhood‚ not politics. Wyoming‚ the first state to grant voting rights to women‚ was also the first state to elect a female governor. Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876-1977) was elected governor of the Equality State (Wyoming’s official nickname) in 1924. From
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the novel “North and South”‚ Elizabeth Gaskell challenges the role of women in Victorian society through her portrayal of Margaret as a powerful and independent woman. During the reign of Queen Victoria‚ a woman’s place was in the home‚ as domesticity and motherhood were considered to be sufficient emotional fulfilment for females. Women did not have suffrage rights‚ the right to own property‚ and rarely had any control over their own lives. Gaskell develops the character of Margaret to break such social
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Prior to the 19th century‚ women lived in a time defined by gender unbalance. Women had no legal‚ social‚ or political rights that people take for granted today. Women were denied key rights like married women could not own property‚ had very little control over personal property‚ they were rarely granted legal custody of their children in case of divorce‚ had no legal claim to any money they might ear‚ could not sue or be sued‚ could not testify in court‚ were banned from institutions and higher
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also have more individual rights. Woman suffrage was the most dominate traits that greatly increased the democratic ideals of United States. As woman rights began to increase‚ women showed that they were more independent as shown through the cult of domesticity. Women were original similar to the status of slaves because they had no voice. This is shown in the engraving by Patrick Reason in 1835 where a woman is in shackles. It shows the original status of women which
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Republican motherhood‚ or the idea that women should be educated to teach their children the nation’s values to better serve their country‚ essentially paved the way for a brighter future for women. Prior to the Revolution‚ men were unwilling to give women equal
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Women generally did not fight in the revolution‚ and the traditional status of Eighteenth Century women meant that they were not publicly able to participate fully in the debates over the revolution. However‚ in their own sphere‚ and sometimes out of it‚ woman participated fully in the revolution in all the ways that their status and custom allowed. As the public debate over the Townshend Acts grew more virulent‚ women showed their support for the cause of freedom by engaging in certain "feminine"
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and status that was unheard of in the other polis‚ along with the rest of the classical world. Since the time of Lycurgus‚ the Spartan lawgiver‚ the women of Sparta were very much aware of their role in society. These roles were in regards to motherhood‚ ownership and maintenance of land‚ religion‚ education‚ marriage and their strong influence and power in society. In Xenophon’s explanation of the Spartan constitution‚ the central and most important role in Spartan society for the Spartiate or
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