Why wasn’t it common to see a woman from a middle class family working?

Status dictated it

Explanation:

In the past (and even now), middle class families often strove to be seen as people of higher status in the society much like the upper classes. For this reason they engaged in practices that were meant to show others that they were deserving of having status.

One of those practices was ensuring that the wife worked as little as possible outside the house. Women working was looked down on in the past especially for married women. It gave the impression of the husband being unable to adequately provide for his family and made people look down on the woman.

A middle class wife therefore, was expected to stay home, cook and take care of her husband and her children, supervise the home and ensure the man had peace of mind outside of work. This is what most of them did and why it was therefore uncommon to see a middle class woman working.

here are some events that to cause increased conflict between the north and south

1) mexican cession- gaining modern day california, utah, arizona, and new mexico from mexico. caused southern and northern politicians to fight over whether or not there would be slavery in these newly acquired territories.

2) uncle tom's cabin- this famous book described the cruelty of slavery in the south during the antebellum period, causing more northerners to support abolition and southerners to resent the book as they felt it unfairly depicted southern society.

3) kansas- nebraska act- disagreements over whether or not kansas and nebraska would be free or slave states caused issues between northern and southern politicians in congress.

4) bleeding kansas- this fighting took place in kansas after congress allowed this territory to vote on whether or not they would have slavery. citizens were killed and buildings were destroyed during this fighting.

where is the picture?