BLOG #6- Chantalle P.
1) There were many different kinds of experiences that particular groups of women had as the United States expanded west. One experience was as the book calls it, "selfless wives, and pioneer mothers." These women were equally important and responsible as men for the western expansion of the United States. These women took on responsibilities like pulling up stakes, cooking, and laundering out of wagons for months and months. These women also experienced the benefit of expansion and were vindicated in their efforts to taking the risk. However, there was an underside to women's experiences during the expansion of the United States. Examples of such women were the Native American women and the Mexican women residents who were violently moved out of the way of the United States conquest. This caused a fear in Native American and Mexican women towards Americans that they called the "red man".
