Describe the dominant conceptions of gender that shaped the lives of American women in each of the three periods examined in this semester. Explain how Patriarchy dictated how women lived in the era 1490-1750 (as exemplified - or challenged - by Mary Rowlandson). Explain the changes (in practice or theory) that the idea of "Republican Motherhood" wrought in women's lives in the era 1750-1815 (use the real Susanna Rowson, and the fictitious Charlotte Temple as examples). Finally, to what extent does Alexis de Tocqueville describe American women as free in the era 1815-1860? Why did women play such a prominent role in reform and abolitionism?