CLEP U.S. History I 089: Changing Work, Gender, and Household Economies
U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 16 | Lesson 16.5 The ideal of separate spheres assigned men to market and political life and women to moral influence in the home. It was a prescriptive white middle-class ideal, not a complete description. Farm women produced food and textiles, managed dairies, and exchanged goods. Enslaved women performed […]
CLEP U.S. History I 088: Free Black Communities and Racial Exclusion
U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 16 | Lesson 16.4 Free Black populations grew through birth, manumission, self-purchase, escape, and northern emancipation. Black churches, mutual-aid societies, schools, conventions, newspapers, and abolition organizations created spaces for worship, education, political strategy, and support. Leaders such as Richard Allen, David Walker, Maria Stewart, Frederick Douglass, and many less […]
