Women's Influence

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This paper explores the importance and influence of Republican motherhood on early American education. The author includes a mother's responsibilities to indoctrinate her children into developing American ideologies. Includes writings by Mary Wollstonecraft and Abigail Adams.

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"The Republican Party is one of the two major political parties of USA. Jefferson's Republican Democrats used the name but the modern Republican Party originated in 1854 as an alliance of those who were opposed to the extension of slavery in the new territories in Western USA. After the election of the first Republican President, Lincoln in 1860, the Republicans were usually the ascendant party until the 1930s becoming identified with conservative business interests. During the time when the Republican Party was formed, a number of significant issues were being raised at a national level to arouse interest and create awareness within the masses. These issues pertained to slavery, sectionalism, temperance, immigration, anti-Catholicism, a decline of moral character and an uncertain and changing economic structure. However what most historians and scholars tend to overlook is the fact that a number of women were coming forth and quite blatantly standing up for the rights of women."

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