After reading the primary sources in The Lowell System, Primary Sources: Documents link

A. Was the factory system and work at Lowell mills an opportunity for upward mobility for the young women who worked there?

b. Titled the Intimately Oppressed,” Howard Zinn asserts: “Thus were women beginning to resist, in the 1830s and 1840s and 1850s, the attempt to keep them in their ‘woman’s sphere.’ They were taking part in all sorts of movements, for prisoners, for the insane, for black slaves, and also for all women.”

What happened after the American Revolution that influenced women’s activism in the public sphere ? (two paragraphs)