Women in the Early Republic

Republican Motherhood, while maintaining women's role in the private sphere, gave women more rights to education.

During the early nineteenth century, women were mainly relegated to the private sphere through the "cult of domesticity." 

While women gained some legal rights in the nineteenth century, African-American women, in particular, remained largely disenfranchised. 

In the early nineteenth century, large discrepancies existed between the educational opportunities for men and women.