Catharine Beecher

Catharine Sedgwick was a prominent early 19th century female author. Growing up in Massachusetts as one of the youngest of ten children she was able to express herself through writing and reading. She admired scholarly and imaginative writers, such as, Edgar Allen Poe and James Fenimore Cooper. In 1827, her most successful work was Hope Leslie (Early Times in the Massachusetts). The book explores two volumes worth of drama Specifically, chapter 4 explores the moments before and the consequence…

4-Jefferson, Rush and Webster, in their own ways, were trying to create an “American” education as opposed to the “English” education that was previously offered to the student in the English colonies of North America. Specifically what did they want to change? The North America education system would include all its citizens in their English colonies. Both Jefferson and Rush shared the belief based on a system that would serve this new nation. This new republican education would then need the…

According to Rothman, “employers hired women when men, because of their social class or education, were either unwilling or unable to fill the positions”. Which basically portrays that women were second pick to men, and were only usually hired when no other men were able to fill such positions. However, proper work and contribution from women in such jobs quickly knocked down doors and turned biased heads, as by 1900 “women could be found in 295 of the 303 occupations listed in the United States…

“SEPARATE SPHERES” AND THEIR EXISTENCE TODAY Tomas Kirklin HIST 120 Women in U.S. History November 3, 2016 In the early to mid nineteenth-century, the ideology of “separate spheres” came into existence and polarized the places of women and her sphere comprised of home and family, essentially the private home life, and men who’s “sphere” comprised of work and politics, essentially the public aspect of life. Women were to embody the virtues of domesticity, piety, purity, and…

In the 19th century, in America women were seen often as subscruent to men. As, the country progress, women in America began to develop the power that helped the nation evolve. The social gospel that develop from the Second Great Awakening started a social justice movement that affected the problems of abolition of slavery, prison and asylum, education, temperance movement and women 's rights. I believe the five key major reform movements of the early 19th century (abolition of slavery, prison…

Change in the role of Women during revolutionary war // Women 's Lives in the American Revolutionary Era (before, during and after)------change this theme Examples of women role b4 RW Before the Revolutionary war, women’s role and rights were strongly inferior to men. Men hold all the power to make decisions, however married women lack of legal rights. The law strongly disagreed to recognize that the women’s rights in every aspects, such as political and economics in the eighteenth century.…

Before the 19th century, women in America were seen as less superior than men. As time continues, women in America began to show the power that helped the nation evolve. As women stayed at home, the more they wanted to get in touch with God such as the new social gospel from the Second Great Awakening. The social gospel from the Second Great Awakening started the social justice to the problems of abolition of slavery, education, temperance movement and women 's rights. I believe the five key…

The Americas started with a very poor education system, and the first person to look into changing this was Benjamin Rush. Rush worked mainly in Pennsylvania and his work was based on diffusing knowledge and establishing public school support which brought people free education. He also worked hard to create the first female academies called the Young Ladies Academy and advocated for the education of the blacks. Thomas Jefferson put in a lot of work into changing education in the Americas and…