Republican Motherhood (jan 1, 1770 – jan 1, 1830)
Description:
Who: Abigail Adams, middle-class and upper-class white women.What: Belief in the duty of women to help educate their sons to be good republican citizens.
When: 1770s-1830s.
Where: America, concentrated in Northeast.
Why: Assigned gender roles, mothers had a civic duty to society; separate spheres.
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Date:
jan 1, 1770
jan 1, 1830
~ 60 years