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The Short Essay questions

Essay A Options (Chapter 5 and 6)

Choose one of the two questions below and write a full, detailed and complete answer (should be at least three full paragraphs). Make sure that you support your statements with details from our readings and lectures.

  1. What were possible social, economic, and political advantages and disadvantages for white women in the Wild West? Was life in the West an improvement over their experiences prior to migration? Explain.
  2. Contrast the ideology of the “true woman” with the emerging “New Woman.” Identify specific ways in which these ideals of womanhood remained the same and the ways in which they differed.