Discuss how and why were women denied fundamental rights for the first 150 years of the nation’s history?

1. How and why were women denied fundamental rights for the first 150 years of the nation’s history?
2. What was “the cult of domesticity”?
3. In what ways did women fight for their rights?
4. Was Lowell a step forward for working women?
5. What issues united and divided the early women’s movement?