Founding The New Nation PDF

FOUNDING THE NEW NATION US 1 Honors - Ms. Van Orden WOMEN Colonial woman --> ~8 children Performed multiple tasks Domestic work, providing medical care, educating children. Could work next to her husband in a shop/ plantation / farm Expected to answer to their fathers, husba...

FOUNDING THE NEW NATION US 1 Honors - Ms. Van Orden WOMEN Colonial woman --> ~8 children Performed multiple tasks Domestic work, providing medical care, educating children. Could work next to her husband in a shop/ plantation / farm Expected to answer to their fathers, husbands, or religious and political leaders. English common law of coverture Married women did not legally or economically exist Under the "cover" of her husband WOMEN Divorce was rare Limited legal and political rights. Shared work + mutual dependence with their husbands = protection from abuse and an active role in decision making. WOMEN 1st Euro women who in Southern colonies were indentured servants Social model did not work well in the early Southern colonies. All hands were needed to ensure that the colony could continue Social structure flattened a bit More established = society reverted to the European model ^ Not true in every colony Puritans --> adhered to strict religious rules, and brought Euro gender roles into the new world from the very start. SO THEY WERE SERVANTS? Yes and no --> impacted colonial society in ways that weren’t always publicly known. Enslaved women --> agricultural knowledge; inventing new ways to perform basic tasks Took part in the armed resistance Power of women was well recognized by English colonial gov Made laws to govern their reproduction Tried them for heresy and witchcraft Severely punished their crimes First published poet of the English colonies was a woman