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What was a significant result of the market revolution on American families?
What was a significant result of the market revolution on American families?
- A decline in the production of goods at home
- An increase in the number of single-parent households
- A shift in the notion of what constituted work and gender roles (correct)
- A decrease in women's participation in the workforce
What was the ideal that emerged in the 19th century regarding women and children's work?
What was the ideal that emerged in the 19th century regarding women and children's work?
- That women and children should only work in agriculture
- That women and children should be involved in production at home
- That women and children should work outside the home to support the family
- That women and children should not engage in paid work (correct)
How did the market revolution transform the economy?
How did the market revolution transform the economy?
- By integrating families into a new cash economy (correct)
- By creating a bartering system
- By decreasing the production of goods at home
- By making goods more expensive
What was the significance of the domestic sphere in the 19th century?
What was the significance of the domestic sphere in the 19th century?
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What was a result of the shift in work away from the home?
What was a result of the shift in work away from the home?
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What was the reality of women's work that the ideal of removing them from work ignored?
What was the reality of women's work that the ideal of removing them from work ignored?
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The Market Revolution and Its Impact on American Families
- In the first half of the 19th century, northern US families increasingly participated in the cash economy created by the market revolution.
Shift in Work and Gender Roles
- The early stages of industrialization shifted work away from the home, transforming Americans' notions of work and what it meant to be an American woman and man.
- The market revolution redefined gender roles as workers were thrust into new systems of production.
Class Status and the Domestic Sphere
- A family's class status was determined by their ability to remove women and children from work, an ideal only achievable for the wealthy.
- The purity of the domestic sphere, an idealized realm of women and children, increasingly signified a family's class status as Americans purchased more goods in stores and produced fewer at home.
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