How did the westward expansion and reconstruction impact women’s rights

Women were largely affected by such a large change. ... This act gave single women the right to claim their own land. Others set out to become teachers to educate those that moved westward. Many victorian women that moved here, had to learn new skills like farming and ranching.

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.

because it’s really sad that’s why it’s in history native americans getting kicked out of their homeland.