Women Historical Development

Isolationism attribute to America's longstanding unwillingness to become included in European

alliances and wars. Isolationists held to see that U.S. understanding on the world was distinct

from that of European societies and that U.S. could move forward the belief of freedom and

democracy by means other than war. U.S. isolationism did not mean fallback from the world

present. Isolationists were not opposed to the thought that the United States must be a world role

player and even distant its territorial reserve, ideological and economic interests, especially in the

Western Hemisphere.

The isolationist position dates to analyzable days. The settlements were

settled by many people who had fled from Europe, in which on that point was spiritual

persecution, economic privation and war. Their new country of origin was seemed upon as a

place to do things appropriate than the old ways. The perfect distance and rigors of the ocean trip

from Europe inclined to emphasize the faraway of the New World from the Old. The roots of

isolationism were well constituted years early independence, however the alliance with France

during the War for Independence.

In the early 1900s, women typically stayed at home and raised children. But society was beginning to change, and in certain states, women were being given the vote. One woman, Jeannette Rankin of Montana, even got elected to congress in 1917. There were also some women of the 1910s who were lawyers, doctors, and professors, but it was still most common for women to be wives and mothers-- in fact, a number of occupations (including teaching) demanded that women quit their job after they married.

During the first World War, a lot of women were employed by factories to continue the work that men had been doing. In 1918, when the war ended, women still wanted to work, and some of them did. The

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suffrage movement, which had been gradually gaining support, finally culminated in the passage of the...