From the 1815-1860, two events changed the role of woman in society forever. From a social, political and cultural standpoints The antebellum market revolution and the second great awakening both played key roles in changing the woman’s role in the family, workplace and society.…
The Market Revolution describes the enlargement of the marketplace that happened in the early 19th-century brought on by the building of new roads and canals to allow remote communities access to each other for the first time. Influenced by the successfulness of the Erie Canal, states spent millions of dollars on transportation systems that propelled economic growth. Funded by private developers and state governments, thousands of miles of roads and canals permitted manufacturers, craftsmen, and farmers to cheaply take their wares to distant and usually more profitable markets. Prior to the early nineteenth century, most Americans only dealt with markets that were local and familiar. They did business with individuals they knew and every transaction was encapsulated within an extended weave of personal relationships.…
(-- removed HTML --) (-- removed HTML --) Infrastructure Changes (-- removed HTML --) (-- removed HTML --) The Market Revolution began with changes to the infrastructure in the United States. Roads and canals were built. These enabled travel and the ability to get goods to and from other areas of the country. This was also a time of Westward expansion, which was able to take place thanks to the ability to travel more easily.…
The Market Revolution was an economic transformation which swept over the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century. Farmers and manufacturers changed their approach to their work and instead of working and producing products for themselves, they now produced products for the markets. Greater opportunities also came with the market revolution, but with greatness also comes downfall, so not everyone benefited from this change. Changes in transportation and communication were the spark that started it all. Many developments were already in motion during the colonial era, but the market revolution helped them to advance at a faster pace.…
The Market Revolution embodied indisputable transformations in the economy. The United States disconnected from its dependence on agriculture and international trade in favor of internal manufacturing. In 1807, President Thomas Jefferson signed an embargo on Britain due to international disputes over trade ship laws and violations. This law restricted American ships from participation international trade with hopes to display America’s importance in the overseas market. Due to this, they could not utilize once lucrative international trade economics (The Market Revolution - Impacts and Significance).…
The social change in America also brought about a cultural change in America. Illiteracy declined in people over 10 from 6% in 1920 to 2.4% in 1960 (Doc K). This shows that America as a whole was taking education more seriously. With the higher literacy rate came a higher family income in the Suburbs, this was 70 per cent higher than the rest of the nation (Doc J). The status of women also changed. This was the, “Suburban Housewife.” The suburban housewife was the dream of young American women. One who was freed by science and laborsaving appliances and dangers of childbirth (Doc M). She was concerned only about her husband. This was a huge change from when women were trying to fight the right to vote, and were constantly in the news. “Feminine fulfillment became the cherished and self-perpetuating core of…
This changed the way of the American family. Younger men in families started gravitating towards the work of the older men which broke down parental authority. Boys began leaving the home earlier to seek their own fortunes, opening up the ownership of the land for women. The views of gender roles altered slightly in society because of this. Soon the idea of a tightly-knit family started to diminish and American transformed into an industrial/urban society.…
Women’s roles in America in the 1920’s changed the most because media help propel women and get them informed about women expressing their independence through fashion, more women seeking education and employment through this time period and the nineteenth amendment being passed for women’s suffrage, The late 1840’s through the early 1900’s was a huge time period of growth for women, though this is just a short time period of hard work thousands of women put in to make a change. Decades and centuries prior to the 1840’s women and some men, usually of the same class, protested, created reform movements, economic protests and more. The reforms created in America blossomed into pressure groups where they would discuss “women question”, these groups would talk about how the world was made for man and man ruled the public world and women ruled the private world in their homes, recognizing the only way to bring women into the man’s world was to challenge man’s social norms. This realisation brought…
Before the war, it was unheard of for women to be working long hours and getting paid good money for it. (HIST 222 lecture, 19 OCT 10) This era was the beginning of women working permanently. (HIST 222 lecture, 28 OCT 10) It was also unheard of for Negros to have jobs and make money. With both of these groups working, there was more money to be spent on products. These new women began to become more political. They cut their hair short, smoked in public, and discussed Freud in public. (HIST 222 lecture, 19 OCT 10) Although women or blacks were still not treated fairly, and were definitely not treated as well as white men, they were treated better than they had been before. It was a step in the right direction, and a step which lead to the Women’s Rights Movements and the Civil Rights…
Throughout the years, many different parts of America needed reform. At the time, people wanted to see change in prison systems and asylums, women’s rights, slavery, education, health, government, religion, and many more. Even though citizens had opinions, those who started movements to show what they believed were mostly women. Women led these movements and charges because many times, the men were too involved in politics and government. The respected white males had and some may say, have the most power in an American society…
The Market revolution was an economic transformation, a scene of the innovation of transportation such as the; steamboat, man-made canals, railroad and communication such as the telegraph. Steamboats “helped to bring economic development to the trans Appalachian west”, up the Erie Canal the world’s largest man-made waterway that connected the region around the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Coast via the Hudson River. The railroads opened vast new areas of the American interior for settlement while also stimulating the demand for coal for fuel, it also helped lower the cost of transportation and made it far easier for economic enterprises to sell their products. The railroad “linked farmers to national and world markets and made them major consumers of manufactured goods”. The telegraph made possible instantaneous communication throughout the nation it was created by Samuel F.B. Morse in 1830’s it helped speed the flow of information and helped even out the price of goods across the nation.…
But when the major changes started to occur for the women in the United States, was by the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Women’s power and was changing the world. “Women led the movement for Prohibition and the temperance movement and played prominent roles in founding settlement houses, in social work, in immigrant aid societies, and in other movements for social reform. Although women did not win the right to vote until 1920, the movement for women's suffrage began before the Civil War in the 1840s. By the 1920s, women's lives had undergone many changes and the rise of the "new woman" was in full effect” (New Women p. 2). The first women’s movement caused a stir in the world. Women having the right to vote was a foreign concept even unfathomable. Women had no political, social, or a working voice. Women will unite together as one force to attain the power to vote, go to school, the ability to go to school. With their success rate increasing. The power of women shines to show greatness. That women don’t have to fit the stereotypical stay at home mom. Women have shown through these events that they have much to offer to the world.…
From the time of the Revolution to the Civil War, the role and view of women had altered dramatically. The numerous changes in jobs and families were some of the things that caused this. Many women were compliant to “Republican motherhood” as countless men off fighting in the war or having to work all day. The wives of those men then had to raise their children all by themselves. Another view among women of this time was that women were expected to work in the house due to the fact that the entire family no longer needed work to support itself. The “cult of domesticity” is another name for these ideas of the way women should live. Another major factor that altered how women were seen throughout this time was women were fighting for their own rights…
As time went on America, as a people, expanded and progressed. As a country we began to better ourselves and pave the way for future generations. One thing that remained the same throughout the years, decades, and even eras was the social status of American women (Goldberg). By the time the 1900s rolled around men were still being handed luxuries that women were not fortunate enough to be a part of or participate in (Buchanan). Women were still not allowed to vote, and taking care of their family’s every need was still an assumed responsibility; however, supporting the family financially was unheard of (Goldberg).…
Life for the American woman in the 19th century was full of conflicts and struggles. Women suffered from a lot of discrimination, and were not allowed to vote, attend universities, speak in public, or own property, and were essentially forced to fight for their place within society. Regardless of these difficulties, women gathered strength in numbers and succeeded in establishing permanent social changes.…