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What Were The Roles Of Colonial Women

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The American Revolution was a shift in political thought and ideals that was so radically different from the dominant paradigm that it required a parallel social shift in order to maintain the political structure. Colonial family structure needed to be controlled by legal means to ensure survival, and so too was this new direction going to need to be controlled from within the family, just with different goals. Among these myriad changes was a transformation of the roles that women performed, specifically their roles as wives and daughters. Differences in family life and the ideals of the Republic had immense effect on the lives that women were living from the economic and maternal hardships of the colonial period to a more modern looking

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