Women who traveled overland trail to Oregon revealed through their diaries and testimonies the struggle they went and their integration to the male patriarchal setting of their time. They showed that they were able to learn the work of men at the same time accomplish their responsibilities as wives and mothers. But generally was not accepted and earned stereotype criticism among the males.
Generally it was a breakthrough on female division of labor among the male, a change in the gender roles.
Lee's Surrender at Appomattox. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox on April 9, 1865, ending the fighting of the eastern theater and effectively ending the American Civil War.
