HDFS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sharecropping, Japanese Americans, Becoming Us
14 Feb 2018
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Patriarchal (cid:523)land was passed down to sons, next: daughter"s husbands, women were prohibited to own land, arranged marriages, women needed to marry to have basic necessities) Economic unit (died of simple sicknesses that happen now, children were born at home, education took place at home) House holds were large (women gave birth to 8 children, hard to control fertility, 2- 3 of the children died, 20% of women died in child birth, & 1 child death experienced) At the mercy of capitalism (most farms ended up specializing in one crop. Childhood (no child labor laws, 15% children worked full time in factories (also farms not %) puberty: children were expected to behave/work like adults, education was not till 1918) Less patriarchal (cid:523)fewer arranged marriages, women"s rights: vote, own land, education, 1870 on: steady increase in more divorces) The great depression (families needed two earning wages)
