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After the "market revolution" and "Second Great Awakening" many changes were made in the roles and opportunities for women with more jobs for them outside of the home strong need for their influence on raising the children, and the importance what it is to be a women and stand out in society. The "market revolution" was a large shift in the countries economy where America became more independent and evolved in Industrialization. With factories popping up all over the country, women were taking jobs in cotton mills. Work was hard, hours were longs, and conditions were unbearable. In a letter from a Lowell mill girl, she describes her long day: rising at five in the morning to work, eating breakfast at seven, working until lunch at noon, and back to the mill until seven at night, and the rest of the evening was theirs. With the "Second Great Awakening", many women became very influential people in society. Charles Finney commented on a woman's convert in New York, She was a worldly woman and very fond of society, but after much prayer, she broke down and became very out-spoken in her religious convictions, and zealous conversion of her friends. Not only were they speaking out for religious aspirations, but also for their own aspirations of being treated equally with the man standing next to them. In a Petition to the Massachusetts Legislature, a woman points out the flaws of having only men in government and only allowing men to vote by revisiting the pre-Revolutionary phrase, "No taxation without Representation." Women worked just as men did, and they were taxed just as men were, why can't they have equal say in how much is being taxed on them or for what purpose that tax is.

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