Tom Luong
AAS 33A
Apryl Berney
12/12/15
Take Home Final
Step II.
1) Use points from Christine Stansell’s chapter to explain how industrialization changed the social and economic fabric of American life. Your explanation should focus on how industrialization transformed family life and gender roles for both men and women.
A woman living during the industrialization tended to live a more comfortable life while being under a man’s support while comparing to when a woman had to live independently all by herself or even supporting other people. Women without men’s supports were apparently to live under terrible conditions because of possible wage cuts or having their paycheck withheld. One of the biggest problems back in the day is the underpayment…show more content… The act also implied the first ever direct tax Parliament had ever passed over the colonies in order to raise the revenue, as well as threaten the right to trial by jury. The Stamp Act was one of the main factor led to the American Revolution. The colonists decided to boycott and riot over British goods because it represented taxation without representation. The colonial men formed an organization called Sons of Liberty, preventing the stamped paper from being unloaded from the British ships, while the colonial women called themselves Daughter of Liberty, helped circulate protest petition by promoting the manufacturing of homespun cloth, as opposed of imported British’s cloth. As a result, no stamps were ever sold outside of Georgia. The issue also brought all of the colonies together, as delegates from nine colonies come together at New York City in October 1765 to prepare strategies and actions against the British policies that rules upon them. The Stamp Act finally got abolished by the Parliament in 1766 after suffering the pressure from London merchants, however, passing a new Declaratory Act, stating the authority of the King and…show more content… It was seen to be an act to rebel against the upcoming and increasing women’s rights and their jobs got taken over by women then. The shows sometimes made sexual jokes mainly towards women as most of them were not able to watch them. Another of its target was towards the black people. The shows tended to support slavery and white supremacy, as it claimed the escaped slaves wanted to go back to become slaves again. Oftentimes, the Irish men were the performers as they tried to prove that they should not belong to the black people’s level as they were also white. It was their way to survive in the American society as they were being hated by the Americans, the same case goes with the Germans as they also tried to fit in as
