Sarah Drummond, Sarah Grendon and Lydia Chisman came to prominence during Bacon Rebellion as a strong rulers and advocates of their husbands. ... Midwives were critically important, both to the husbands and community. ... Sarah Josepha Hale, the editor of Godey's Lady's Book, popularized the image of women as spiritual supporters of their husbands, rather that financial. ... Husbands usually lived on another plantations and spouses spent only one day a week together. ...

• Word Count: 2277
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Clara Barton was a pioneer of the ideal that women could enter the work force and the epiphany of society carried to the present day to where women having jobs is now the societal norm. ... This created large number of family without husbands, fathers, and sons. ... Therefore, these stepping stone paved the way for women's right, even for Hillary Clinton as she embodies the ideal of so many women in the nineteenth century....

• Word Count: 1101
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After the declaration of the American Civil War, men left and right enlist to join the fight against the north, including Scarlett's new husband, Charles. ... The entire film was shot from the perspective of southern people, so it makes sense that southern ideals were most prevalent. ...

• Word Count: 794
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

She made her film debut around 1914 with a comedy titled Coon Town Suffragettes, which "dealt with a group of bossy mammy washerwomen who organize a militant movement to keep their good-for-nothing husbands at home But the militancy of the washerwoman served as a primer for the mammy roles Hattie McDaniel was to perfect in the 1930's" (Bogle 9). ... If the black man were attracted to the white woman, it was not because she was a symbol of power or an ideal of the oppressor, but rather because of his innate animalism (Bogle 14). ...

• Word Count: 1938
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Douglass Proves the American Dream" The American Dream is the ideals of freedom, equality, opportunity, and a life of personal happiness and material comfort, traditionally held to be available for every American. ... He learned from the mistress's husband that the knowledge of a black man was a white man greatest fear. ...

• Word Count: 1886
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the years, slavery has played a dominant role within the Cherokee Nation, inevitably affecting thousands of African Americans, American Indians, and Europeans alike. Within the last decade, a vicious battle has come alive between the Cherokee people and freedmen. These freedmen, who have ...

• Word Count: 2752
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The South was ideal for growing tobacco due to the warm climate and the fertile soil. ... Their ideals included hard work, education, economic independence, and the belief that the community had the right and responsibility to decide whether an action was moral or immoral. ...

• Word Count: 4026
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

By her description of Tom, Stowe contradicts the common stereotype that blacks are savages and inhumane by giving Uncle Tom the characteristics of an ideal, honest man. ... The women in Juffure pass the day by cooking breakfast, working in the rice fields during the day, and finally cooking dinner for their husbands and children. ...

• Word Count: 4104
• Approx Pages: 16