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The era of the New Republic.
Women still dint have any rights in politics or in the nation. However they started to feel a strong sense of freedom being to get a education and having some say in the law. Women stared new movements advocating for their rights, abolition, and temperance.
Women join the fight once more
Women again join the battlefield, in the camps they were laundresses, seamstresses and serve as companions to soldiers, as well as cooks and nursemaids. At home they tended the fields and took men's jobs while they were away fighting.
Jeffersonian Era
Women couldn't vote at all however, their support was seeked by both the Federalist and the Republicans because women were much purer and nobler. The women's calm nature swayed the men towards a more liberal attitude towards politics.
Women were becoming much more independent and thus they sought more rights and advocated for political say. this opened a doorway for women for an increase of the women's role in the American life. The movements they started lack support and became un-successful and the women who didn't support this believed that their place was at home with their husband and children. They didn't want to break away from the life they grew up with and were accustom to.
Jacksonian Era
The "Era" of the common man didn't include women unlike the men who had an increase in rights, not very Democratic. The women during this time no longer could control or persuade their husbands in politic action.
Women's role
- The women supported the American Temperance Society that was establish in 1826, which was to limit the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
- The "Cult of Domesticity" was were a women were to abide to a set of virtues and responsibilities. they were to be loving and faithful to their husbands and to be good mothers. their prime role was to "better Society".
- The women had a convention advocating women rights called the Seneca Falls Convention. This was the first movement that would eventually gain support and other women would join the movement for their rights.
This was the beginning of the movement that would impact the lives of all in the future. this was going to increase in numbers and movement would gain new rights that they never received.