Compare and contrast the effect of the Civil War on northern women and southern women.
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Both regions saw an increase in the proportion of unmarried women in the population.
2. The women of both regions, facing involuntary spinsterhood, sought new opportunities for
making a living or serving the community that went beyond the purely domestic roles previously prescribed for women.
3. Northern women stepped outside traditional roles by participating on the home front as fund- raisers and in the rear lines as army nurses and members of the Sanitary Commission.
4. Many northern women who served as nurses or volunteer workers during the war were responsive to calls for broadening “the woman’s sphere.”
5. Some northern women who were prominent in wartime service organizations led postwar
philanthropic and reform movements.
6. Southern women, although previously involved in administering farms and plantations, were forced to take on larger roles, including running huge plantations without extensive training or the assistance of male relatives.
7. The devastation of the southern economy forced many women to play a more conspicuous public and economic role.
8. Southern women formed associations to assist returning soldiers, became teachers, and
established benevolent and reform societies or temperance organizations.
9. The South remained more conservative in its views about women’s “proper place” than the North did.
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