Short Answer Questions: Using the excerpt above, answer (a), (b), and (c)
a) Describe the conditions in America around 1840 that encouraged young women to seek employment outside of
their home.
b) List and explain three reasons Orestes Brownson used to oppose the employment of women as factory
"operatives."
c) Identify an argument from the “Lowell Offering" and explain how it countered the position of Orestes Brownson.

Read the following passage. the early mill girls were of different ages. some were not over ten years old; a few were in middle life, but the majority were between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five. the very young girls were called "doffers." they "doffed," or took off, the full bobbins from the spinning frames, and replaced them with empty ones. based on the passage, early mill girls were mostly young. were mostly middle aged. were of a variety of ages. were mostly children.

What’s the term used for a lawyer who argues for the convection for a defendant in a criminal case?

Which is true about pontiacs war in 1763