Section 1
Women in the Early Republic
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Republican Motherhood
Republican Motherhood, while maintaining women's role in the private sphere, gave women more rights to education.
Women and Democracy
During the early nineteenth century, women were mainly relegated to the private sphere through the "cult of domesticity."
Women and the Law
While women gained some legal rights in the nineteenth century, African-American women, in particular, remained largely disenfranchised.
Women and Education
In the early nineteenth century, large discrepancies existed between the educational opportunities for men and women.