DBQ+4.+ANP

From 1815-1860, women's rights have changed a lot. Women had one roll in life, get married and have children. They were less appreciated and were always owned. Women had very little privileges, until they changed their family, workplace, and society roles.  Women had to clean the house, teach and take care of the children, wash the laundry, and have dinner on the table before the father got home. They also weren't ever allowed to work and had to marry in their teen years. That all changed with the Cult of Domesticity. Unmarried women were able to work in factories, some women didn't marry or married later in life, women didn't have as many children, and they had more rights (Doc. C). Something new for women emerged; working. Women until marriage got to work in factories and mills. They were called factory girls. One of the most common known mills was the Lowell mill (Doc. B). The owners of the Lowell Mill were very convincing to fathers so their daughters wouldn't turn out to be unmarryable.