During the period between 1790 and 1860 the role of women began to change dramatically. In domestic families‚ women generally sided with the men and were limited to performing such tasks. Economically speaking‚ women occupations decrease as educated men replace midwifery. In actuality‚ the ideology of patriarchy co-existed with a high degree of blurring of gender boundaries. Colonial women shouldered many duties that would later be monopolized by men. The colonial goodwife engaged in trade and
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During 1790-1860‚ there were many reformations taking place and many events that lead up to the reformation of this very inexperienced country‚ of America. All these events effected the United States different ways and caused many grievances for the young people living in America. In 1790 we firmly incorporated the first American cotton mill which led to the economic augmentation of the United States. In 1791 we established the Capital of the United States in Washington D.C.‚ and Alexander Hamilton
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The Western Frontier and the Changes that took Place The frontier was land that had been untouched in the Western United States by white mans laws and way of life. As time passed‚ and the population grew on the frontier‚ and changes took place. Basic ways of life changed. Religious beliefs‚ laws‚ and regulations were challenged and adapted to the new settings. Each of these novels‚ The Pioneer‚ A New Way Home-Who’ll Follow‚ & Hope Leslie‚ take a different look at these changes that were taking
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During the years 1790-1860 many changes in the nation were occurring in the values of Americans and in their different societies. The vacant‚ immeasurable land in the western frontier enabled a shift of change from social‚ political and economic conformity to more individual techniques and beliefs away from governmental traditions imposed more in the east coast of the nation. As different factors forced people to migrate west in the country it changed not only society and values of people in the
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The Western Frontier The romanticism of the west employed the frontier as the outer edge of the wave meeting “between savagery and civilization.” To historians‚ a frontier is “is not a lining of marking the start of an empty place but a zone of interaction where two or more societies vie for the use of land.’ In the “frontier thesis”‚ Frederick Turner describes the frontier as “gradually peopled.” However‚ the congress in 1862 funded the transcontinental railroad‚ the union pacific‚ and
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Women in past western society have been seen as the unintelligent‚ powerless‚ and insignificant gender. Though something began to change between 1790 and 1860. Economically Women were now able to work‚ have money‚ and help their families; Domestically‚ there was the great admiration for women in the home now instead of just expecting their place to be there. The Industrial Revolution brought many changes to the whole nineteenth-century. It brought technology to make life much easier‚ economic growth
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Between the years of 1790 and 1860 and eventually leading up to the Civil War in 1861‚ sectionalism was a growing issue in the United States. In the early nineteenth century‚ westward expansion was starting and taking place‚ which ultimately started sectionalism. The Federal Government was very encouraging towards settlers moving and expanding west‚ angering the northern states. They believed that if they expanded west‚ all their best laborers would be taken away from them. The North was fighting
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The Western Frontier The western frontier is full of many experiences that changed the frontier. Each significant event has an important role on the shaping of society and way it influenced a new nation. Each author brought a new perspective and thought process to the western experience which either contradicted Turner or supported his theories. The frontier ideas that interested me include topics such as trading frontier‚ farming frontier‚ nationality and government‚ and the neglecting of women
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LI 532 Paper #3 February 27‚ 2008 East of Eden: The Discovery of Innocence on the Western Frontier What happens in the West? What kind of change takes place when an individual crosses over the boundary separating what has been settled from what has yet to be— the frontier. Over the last few weeks I have continued to probe the idea of the West as a place that has yet to be defined. Many times‚ authors and people are not even sure where it starts as it is an invisible border that exists only
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In the United States‚ the frontier was the term applied to the zone of unsettled land outside the region of existing settlements of Americans. In a broad sense‚ the notion of the frontier was the edge of the settled country where unlimited free land was available and thus unlimited opportunity. Being a frontiersman in the so-called Wild West‚ a cowboy‚ rancher or gold miner were idealized within American mystery. Mark Twain colorfully related that accounts of gold strikes in the popular press had
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