Between the 1790’s to 1820’s the women faced striking changes which evolved the nature in their private and public lives these changes were promoted by the Second Great Awakening. Women and men no longer married who their parents chose for them but now went by sentimentalism. There was companionate marriages in which the woman chose their significant other by feeling not interest but the husband still had control over the woman. Women were expected to raise good citizens, a Mother’s Magazine was published to show women how to raise their children into better people. Emma Willard an American advocate of higher education gave the woman a hope in equality in education by opening up academies for girls. When Mother Ann Lee organized the Shakers
