Another prevailing belief that prevented women to go to colleges was that their education must be limited to fields that may match their functions and responsibilities as wives and mothers. The belief that they should be educated in separate settings matching their future roles as wives and mothers excluded them at times when domestic concerns prevailed (Eisenmann, 2007)
However, the opportunities for women increased in a dramatic way with the introduction of Title IX and the implementation of the legislation regarding equal access to education. It is exceedingly necessary to "look back and reflect on the accomplishments of those from the past so that we might better encourage those who will go into the future" (Madigan, 2009) into new educational contemporary age
They strongly supported the idea that women must be provided the same wide-ranging and useful education that men were offered. With the progression in the twentieth century, the world witnessed stability in the women colleges and their education turned out as publically acceptable (Masteller, 1998)
Our democracy depends on an educated populace." (Hooper, 2002) It has become extremely important for the students, schools, and districts to at least meet minimum requirements so as not to face serious consequences
Question FOUR: What was the impact of British mercantilist policy on colonial economic development and policy-making? A book by David Kidder and Noah Oppenheim explains that the term "mercantilism" when referencing the British policy regarding the American colony, it means "…stifling economic rules imposed on the thirteen colonies" prior to the revolution. Mercantilism was created and designed in order to "…squeeze every penny of revenue out of the colonies" in order to make the Crown rich and help to further expand the British Empire (Kidder, et al
Initially the Puritans in New England began baptizing Indians, thinking the natives understood the purpose of baptism. However, it turns out that the Indians "…had accepted baptism solely as a sign of friendship, and were unpleasantly surprised to discover that it entailed obligations like monogamy" (Murray, 46)
Newton explains that of course "taxation without representation" had a major impact on the colonies in terms of their exasperation with the British government. But mercantilism "…played an equally important role in Britain's American policy…" leading up to the American Revolution (Newton, 2011, p
Many other Indians were killed in wars and in what authors call "genocide," but author Russell Thornton believes that the diseases brought into North America by the Europeans by far was the most devastating in terms of the natives' demise. In fact Thornton asserts, "Without doubt, the single most important factor in American Indian population decline was an increased death rate due to diseases introduced from the Eastern Hemisphere" (Thornton, 1987, p
And although traditionally the British immigrants in the Virginia Company found slavery abhorrent, they needed the labor and eventually brought in slaves. The rationalization for putting Africans in chains? The English "…commonly associated the color black with sin" hence it was "…all too easy to arrive at the conclusion that god had decreed perpetual bondage as part of the Africans' punishment" (Wood)
While the American Colonies did allow more religious freedom than was possible in Britain, there were still fundamental conflicts and elements of religious persecution in the Colonies that were directly related to their British heritage (Nevins & Commager, 1992). In some cases, those attitudes were further fueled by concerns and fears about the possible allegiance of some Colonists to potential foreign enemies of the Colonies (Furlong, Margaret, & Sharkey, 1988; Nevins & Commager, 1992)
Generally, this was only part of the reason that the Northern states became more successful than their Southern counterparts because their natural resources and harbors facilitated manufacturing and foreign trade much more than the resources available in the south that left few alternatives besides cotton and tobacco farming. Cotton farming, in particular, was so difficult before the introduction of the cotton gin that those regions may eventually have collapsed economically without it (Lakwete, 2004)
At first, the dominant religion (and the nature of the religious dominance of one religion in particular) closely reflected the British origin of the Colonists. While the American Colonies did allow more religious freedom than was possible in Britain, there were still fundamental conflicts and elements of religious persecution in the Colonies that were directly related to their British heritage (Nevins & Commager, 1992)
The Stamp Act of 1765 unfairly taxed all paper documents and paper materials. Instead of granting the colonies greater independence, the British instead imposed the Sugar Act and Stamp Act, as well as mandate a standing army ("Effects of the War," n
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