The Role Of Democracy In The Early American Republic

There are abundant of ways the early nineteenth-century reform movements for abolition and woman’s rights illustrated both the strengths and weaknesses of democracy in the early American republic. In the nineteenth century, the number of inhabitants in the United States developed quickly and settlers from Europe who sought a better life began to fill the nation. By 1810 the number of inhabitants in the United States was more than 7.2 million and it kept on developing quickly. By the 1860’s, the populace was 31 million and by 1900, it was right around 76 million. With more people migrating to America, reformation through abolition and woman’s rights were knowingly and eventually going to occur. There are many events that
Before the nineteenth century, slavery, slaves were thought of dark-skin creatures incapable of learning and should only be listed as white man’s property. There were usually stripped from their families and usually abused if they disobeyed their master’s orders. Before the Industrial Revolution, slavery was only practiced in southern, rural states whereas black people in the northern states where already free. Slaves were in high demand for the Southern States because agriculture was a necessity and it was essential to how southerners used it to survive and made a profit of the northern states. Factories were being built all across the United States of America and gave poor white people jobs to earn money for their family. As new technology and factories were being created the value of slaves automatically increased. Since the north declared a victory of the Civil War, all blacks were know considered free so the quantity of slaves greatly decreased. Even though black people weren’t officially known as slaves, people of European descent highly distinguished themselves with blacks and ultimately displayed a new societal crisis of discrimination in
Although duties included taking care of children, tending to their husbands, groceries, cleaning the house, and cooking, their main purpose in life was to take care of their families. This ideal role of a woman was known ever since Christopher Columbus and colonizers came to America. This explains the gender roles displayed throughout the centuries because while the men arrived in the America’s, they had to provide for their families and did all the “dirty work” while the woman took care and taught the children. To make extra money for their families, manufacturing was often done in people homes where a woman would make and sell anything that was easy for a woman to make such as clothes, bread, homemade soaps and etc. It was until the Industrial Revolution that began to change the responsibility of women. Once factories were quickly producing popularized products, there was no need for a woman to try to sell their homemade products. After the civil war, many husbands and fathers died in the war and because of this, it forced women and young girls to work in factories for long hours at a day. Before, the thought of a woman working only meant making extra money for her family by her means but now it became a necessity to support their family. Jobs in factories were usually dangerous and their bosses would have them work in harsh working conditions for