Overview
Read through all the links and excerpts below: The Lowell System, Primary Sources in American Yaw Links to an external . Lowell Mill - Gilder Lehrman Institute links to an external site.
The Mill Girls of Lowell - Lowell National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)
Write a short essay (3 to 4 paragraphs ), answering the question of the prompts below. You must utilize and cite evidence from the module content to get points: A. Was the factory system and work at Lowell mills an opportunity for upward mobility for the young women who worked there?
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read chapter six i attached it to this assignment
At the end of chapter 6, "Titled the Intimately Oppressed," Howard Zinn asserts: "Thus were women beginning to resist, in the 1830s and 1840s and 1850s, the attempt to keep them in their 'woman's sphere.’ They were taking part in all sorts of movements, for prisoners, for the insane, for black slaves, and also for all women.”What happened after the American Revolution that influenced women’s activism in the public sphere? (in three paragraphs, explain the changes in gender roles) Make sure your answer includes examples and evidence in the 1800s to the 1850s with what i attached.