A revolution for allBefore the revolution, women were viewed with a mere means: they supplied the children in order for the family to prosper and ensured the household ran in a smooth manner, rarely anything more. However, with revolutionary thought that the future rested on having good citizens, from birth to death, women took on a whole new role.
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Because women were still primarily at home running the household and raising the children, revolutionary thought gave way to giving the women full responsibility to raise children who were abiding citizens that upheld the values of the newly free nation. With this came what many people to believe as the female's first dignified profession: schoolteacher. Women were responsible for teaching these children all tools necessary to be the greatest Americans possible.
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For the first time during this era, marriage was beginning to happen for the purpose love above everything else.
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Since this was a time of war, many men were off at battle leaving not only the household behind but many jobs and businesses behind as well. It would then become the females responsibility to take over these jobs, at least for a short while and care for the house and ensure a livelihood simultaneously. Some women even followed their husbands to war, either acting as nurses or cooks for the soldiers and even sometimes disguising themselves as men in order to battle.
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