Many women who went west didn't have a choice. It was their husband's or father's. Other women who went were looking for husbands, homestead, adventure, and other opportunities.
African American women were also apart of the many frontier women who went west. Those who did escape were looking for freedom and safety of the free states
That sounds awful! One of my friends told me that they lost one of their kids to dehydration in the desert
The people who traveled west faced many hardships and while Indian attacks were rare they still posed as threat and that added to the sense of danger
I heard from a friend of mine that some tried to save time and go through the mountains but two of the women ended up dying from freezing to death and then they were attacked by indians
I heard that one man had to leave his wife behind because she died of a disease
I heard that an entire family drowned trying to cross a river
Women were expected to the work once they got home; cooking, washing clothes, and caring for the children.
The Homestead Act; first time women were believed to own land not acquired by marriage or inheritance
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Annie Bidwell believed in the movement to give women a right that had long been denied them in the East: the right to vote. By 1900, 20 years before women across the nation could vote, women were voting in four western states.
Biddy Mason’s owner tried to take from california (a free state) she sued for her freedom and won, she became a well-known pionier and community leader
Many Pioneer woman left behind a legacy such as....
Wherever they settled, they established schools, churches, libraries, literary societies, and charitable groups. Women in the West helped pave the way for more equal treatment of women throughout the United States. This was perhaps the greatest legacy of the women pioneers. Wyoming became the first state to allow women the right to vote
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¡Sin Descargas, sin Tarjeta de Crédito y sin Necesidad de Iniciar Sesión Para Probar!