in the american revolution women were beginning to take roles in society what were they trying to achieve later on? what factors happened to get in their way? i know men did what else?
2007-09-16 18:31:36 · 2 answers · asked by paway 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The above poster does not know the whole history. There were founding fathers of this country that wanted to get rid of slavery. However, to get all the colonies behind them, and later to get the states to ratify the Constitution, they had to drop the parts about giving up slaves.
Some give and take had to happen in order for the whole of the colonies to be as one.
It took a civil war, and an executive order by lincoln to free the slaves. He did it to cripple the southern economy, not solely because he through the slaves should be freed.
2007-09-17 07:19:23 · answer #1 · answered by gryphon1911 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The laws - made by the men. So much for liberty and equality. "All MEN are created equal" - not women nor Africans nor native Indians. We were a country "by the people and for the people" - but the "people" were only the white males with property. As long as men made the rules (the laws) women would not have equality. That was not achieved in the US until 1919-1920. In France, the birthplace of liberty - equality- and FRATERNITY (brotherhood not sisterhood), women would not get the vote until 1944-45 at the end of WWII. 'Twas impossible for women to beat a system where all the laws were made by men - very insensitive men who ignorantly thought women were inferior. (And I'm a guy.)
2007-09-17 02:09:22 · answer #2 · answered by Spreedog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋