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Women's role in society was altered by the American Revolution. Women who ran households in the absence of men became more _______. Pre-Revolutionary ministers, particularly in Puritan Massachusetts, preached the moral superiority of men. Enlightened thinkers rejected this and knew that a republic could only succeed if its citizens were virtuous and educated.
Hence, the _______ _______ was developed as the idea that women should serve as educators of young men in order to teach them to become productive American citizens and embrace the Enlightenment ideas to support the new nation following the end of the American Revolution.
