What Is The Role Of Women In The 1800s

In the late 1700s to mid-1800s, the United States seems to grow increasingly divided. The contrast in strong opinions and the desire to shape America’s social-economic and political climate between the northern and southern regions of the United States from 1776 to 1850, ultimately lead to communal unrest, eventually resulting in the Civil war in 1861. Even though sharing the same flag, same President, and speaking the same language were commonalities, the dissimilarities between the north and the south were mounting. The debates over slavery, women’s rights, and religious values during the early to mid-1800s, led to the growing discord between the north and the south.
Slavery, perhaps one of the most predominant tribulations in America’s
Furthermore, and even more important, women spoke out for the rights of all human beings. The legal statuses of women rights in times before the Revolutionary war were governed by state law and not on a Federal level. Considering this, the rights of women were dependent on where they lived or what their social status was within their region. “In every state, the legal status of free women depended upon marital status… they had the legal right to live where they pleased and to support themselves in any occupation that did not require a license or a college degree restricted to males.” The rights of southern woman and northern women were not much different. With this in mind, women were often considered second-class citizens, especially those who were not free, most notably African American women. Although many African American women often carried the same privileges as Caucasian women, they were subject to cruel racial prejudice and segregation as slaves, especially those in the south. As a demonstration of women’s suffrage back in 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was crafted, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams to “Remember the Ladies” in response to the wording that “all men are created equal.” In 1838, Angelina Grimké spoke out against slavery at the Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia, reaching a crowd of both women and men on the suffrage of slaves and women. “Men who hold the rod over slaves, rule in the councils of the nation: and they deny our right to petition and to remonstrate against abuses of our sex and of our kind. We have these rights, however, from our God.” Furthermore, establishing her role as abolitionist and women’s rights advocate, she was eventually silenced, and the Pennsylvania Hall was destroyed by a mob of angry protestors. Although women were held in minimal regard politically, the 1848 Seneca Falls Women’s Rights