17.9k views
1 vote
The women’s movement began when women saw parallels between their situation and that of _____.

User Msalla
by
8.9k points

1 Answer

6 votes

The U.S. women’s rights movement first emerged in the 1830s, when the ideological impact of the Revolution and the Second Great Awakening combined with a rising middle class and increasing education to enable small numbers of women, encouraged by a few sympathetic men, to formulate a critique of women’s oppression in early 19th-century America.

User ShreeshaDas
by
8.5k points

Related questions

2 answers
5 votes
7.6k views
2 answers
1 vote
231k views