characterization? Consider TWO of the following in your response. Economic development Politics Reform movements 7. In what ways did the Second Great Awakening in the North influence TWO of the following? Abolitionism Temperance The cult of domesticity Utopian communities 8. Although Americans perceived Manifest Destiny as a benevolent movement‚ it was in fact an aggressive imperialism pursued at the expense of others. Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to
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The social and economic improvements were without a doubt vital despite the fact that a part of the populace was shunned for these blooming new rights. Women were oppressed by the ideals of “ republican motherhood” and the “ cult of domesticity.” The “cult of domesticity” developed to relegate women to their specific sphere of influence‚ in the home. Republican Motherhood was the idea that women were to pass down the country’s qualities to the adolescent while the clique of family life was developed
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come from and how did it change throughout the years if they were expected to be goodwives? In a world of patriarchy‚ how did women find other roles besides domesticity? Women started with barely any rights in the colonial America but as decades went by‚ more and more women had the courage to impact the nation in their own way. Although domesticity and republican motherhood were the only roles of women in America‚ some women‚ like Marry Wollstonecraft‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Catherine Beecher‚ Dorothea
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American History Words: 725 | Pages: 3 Views: 5585 Popularity Rank: 150 Average Member Grade: N/A (Add a Comment / Grade this Paper) AP American History 12/13/2004 Women’s Role in Society During the early 1800’s women were stuck in the Cult of Domesticity. Women had been issued roles as the moral keepers for societies as well as the nonworking house-wives for families. Also‚ women were considered unequal to their male companions legally and socially. However‚ women’s efforts during the 1800’s
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ends.through the commodity racism‚ ’the Victorian middle-class home became a space for the display of imperial spectacle and the reinvention of race‚ while the colonies - in particular Africa - became a theatre for exhibiting the Victorian cult of domesticity and the reinvention of gender’.
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In The Age of Innocence‚ I found that the topic of women’s roles in the 19th century held a great deal of importance. In the 19th century women lived lives much differently than women of modern day. Men and women were perceived as having extremely different roles and purposes in life. Women were expected to live their lives in private‚ while men were able to go out freely. While men were given powerful attributes‚ women were given weakened attributes. Women were seen as weak‚ domestic‚ emotional
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while woman was religious‚ modest‚ passive‚ submissive‚ and domestic. As a result‚ there developed an ideal of American womanhood‚ or a "cult of true womanhood" as denoted by historian Barbara Welter. This cult‚ evident in women’s magazines and religious literature of the day‚ espoused four basic attributes of female character: piety‚ purity‚ submissiveness‚domesticity. 1) Religion/Piety was the "core of woman’s virtue‚ the source of her strength" (Welter‚ 21). Religion was a gift of God‚ given so that
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Birth control has always been a controversial topic in America. There are people who believe that it does more harm than good for women‚ while others think the complete opposite. Even though there have been some medical down sides to birth control there have been more positive outcomes from the legalization such as independence from men. Birth control started a movement for women in America and because of the movement‚ women now are able to take control of their bodies and have the power to choose
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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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more informed citizenry. Likewise‚ the cult of domesticity emerged after women created competition for jobs driving wages lower. Just as children underwent compulsory education‚ women were placed upon a pedestal and granted with the special job of educating the country’s youth at home. With a new influx of immigrants in the 1880s from southeastern Europe and east Asia‚ nativists reacted analogous to such education reformers and proponents of the cult of domesticity in years prior. Immigrants‚ just like
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