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Men were fearful of women who were educated and found them undesirable, because to society they were no longer focused on God and submissive to men.

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Religion and a woman's 'proper place' went hand-in-hand. Religion was used to occupy women so they conform to the more domestic women that were described.

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It was the thought that women (mothers and daughters) should learn the idea about Republicanism because they would be able to pass these views on to future generations. This was an important part of the revolution because it encouraged education for the women and their importance in society.

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It's telling that even with stories of women breaking barriers on the battlefield, the author still doesn't have the confidence to send a message to the nation that all women can do the same and break social norms that work against them.

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The Separate Spheres Ideology came about when women became the "moral guardians" of the country. Men took over the diversity and political sphere while women were in the sphere of domesticity. This was known as the "private sphere" because women were raising their family and caring for the home.

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Reading Deborah Sampson's story, it reminded me of something I have watched when I was a little girl. It was so similar to the movie Mulan, in which a girl enters the army as a male, in secret.

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a woman's main role was viewed as being a hostage in the home, meaning her worth was equivalent to her attributes to her home and family. She was judged by how well she contributed to her home on the basis of four virtues: piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity.

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Kent mentions in their article that if women did not conform to a man's idea of how women should act in society than they would "lose respect and attention of the male public" (51).

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military women were put into three different groups: the "women of the army", enlisted women fighting alongside men, and women who served as irregular fighters in militia companies of committees of safety(Berkin, 209).

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Previously, historians assumed women in the continental army were prostitutes or camp followers. This was far from the truth. Camp followers were civilians who followed the army to sell goods or services. These women were enlisted members into the continental army, not civilians, and surely were not prostitutes considering promiscuous fornication was a breach of the army's discipline guidelines.

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Berkin argues that colonial women were fed the idea that they were created to be men’s “helpmates” (Berkin 5), and that mentally they could handle nothing more taxing than nurturing and tending to their homes. These preconceptions about their abilities were drilled into their minds from birth since “minister sermonized it, educators elaborated it, lawmakers codified it, and poets versified it” (Berkin 4).

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A woman's life was dominated by negatives. Born rich or poor, a woman faced restrictions on her economic independence, legal identity, and her access to positions of formal authority (Berkin, p. 4).

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At the outset, citizenship was defined by race and gender. Native Americans, black people, and white women were not included. Moreover, the definition of white was Anglo-Protestant

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During the War of Independence, American women no longer agreed with the idea of “men dominate the outside and women dominate the interior”. They actively participated in social affairs, no longer regarded politics as their “extraordinary matter”, and expressed their views on politics in various ways.

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Household responsibilities among women also varied from class. Women from higher classes were responsible for household decor while women from lower classes' responsibilities were tending to their house by polishing, cleaning, and also tending in the fields if needed.

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During the same period, the progressive reform movement flourished in the United States, and its concentrated solutions to political corruption, inequality of economic opportunities, and decline in moral standards attracted all sectors of society.

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Daily life was separated by gender and race. For white men, life was easy because they ran society. For white women, they had some protection because of a husband but they had limited rights. For slaves, life was terrible, especially in the times following the Revolutionary War.

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Women who did not choose to marry or “feme sole’ “had access to a broader legal identity than she would as a matron” (Berkin, 5). A married woman had her rights taken away and these rights were given majoritively to the husband.

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Women were often looked at as the inferior gender and "the female brain was too weak to absorb abstract ideas" (Berkin, 5)