HIST 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Living Wage
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Pick up from previous class: september 19, 2016. Far more than in any other area the american revolution ushered in a revolution in the education of women. The united states being an independent, became a republic. And the belief had always been for the republics to be successful, it required an education, knowledgeable electorate. If individuals were going to be respond lie for electing people, they would need to be educated. So when women would be educated, the could in turn educate their offspring in things such as: acting for the public at large (public virtue), thrift, etc. this gave women a political role even though they couldn"t vote. The longevity of the republic would be dependent of the education of the offspring. Republican motherhood fed into what scholars have labeled today as, the cult of domesticity most married women from that era became part of domesticity, lives revolving around the home, raising of children, teaching them proper morals etc.
