RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Many men were killed or physically impaired by the fighting.
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Old ideas about women’s separate spheres had been forgotten.
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The 14 Amendment gave women the right to vote. t
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New manufacturing jobs were created that were aimed at women.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Some women were no longer willing to complacently fill the roles they had occupied before the war. Some women had entered paid employment in government service, industry and public schools in significantly greater numbers than previously.
Detailed explanation-2: -There were nurses, civilian volunteers, and writers who stood in solidarity with their male counterparts to serve the country they believed in. These women of the Civil War courageously fought not only the enemy soldiers but the traditional expectations of a 19th century gentlewoman.
Detailed explanation-3: -Some women went to war in order to share in the trials of their loved ones. Others were stirred by a thirst for adventure, the promise of reliable wages, or ardent patriotism.
Detailed explanation-4: -Nearly 20, 000 women worked more directly for the Union war effort. Working-class white women and free and enslaved African-American women worked as laundresses, cooks and “matrons, ” and some 3, 000 middle-class white women worked as nurses.