1. The New Nation: industry, domesticity, and women in slave society, 1800 - 1860
History 37, Summer 2014

2. Questions to consider:
How are female rights and citizenship addressed in the Constitution?
What was the “cult of domesticity” and how does this ideology differ from Republican Motherhood?
What role do the Industrial and Market Revolutions have on American lives?
How did women of varying race and class experience southern slave culture?

3. ‘Murrica! Now what?: Drafting the Constitution
Most controversial debates during the drafting of the Constitution:
Who should be able to vote/electoral college?
Voting limited to property-owning men (race not originally specified)
How should states be represented in Congress?
State representatives based on population….should slaves be counted?
Whether or not white women should be counted was never questioned.

4. Structure of federal branches

6. The Industrial and Market Revolutions
Crash Course US History on the Market Revolution:

7. Cult of Domesticity
Ideology of “true womanhood” that idealized femininity, piety, and submissiveness
Separate spheres – feminine activities vs. non-feminine activities
Women are physically weak, delicate and soft
Where do working-class women fit within this ideal? Slave women? Other women who otherwise refuse to adhere to this ideology?

8. Women in Slave Society (1800-1860)
Term to define: paternalism
Household and leisure for plantation mistresses
Poor white women (yeoman farmers or domestics)
Life for slave women: marriage, children, work