They were discouraged because the law at that time stated that their earning basically belonged to their spouse, and also they couldn't own property, so they couldn't use their money in any way other than giving it to their husband. With this kind of a law, nobody would work.
Gangs
and thug life have largely become connected to the African American and
hispanic communities because of the last few decades of gang activity
coincidentally enough since legalized racial discrimination gradually came to
an end throughout the 1970s; this, despite over a century of the KKK (Ku Klux
Klan) running rampant in the U.S., terrorizing, destroying, and murdering
without rule or consequences. The KKK was not created out of poverty and
survival in a lower-class area as with African American and hispanic gangs, but
rather pure racism. These gangs are white-only hate groups put together after
whites had lost the 5 year long American Civil War that ended slavery. The goal
of KKK was to restore slavery and white supremacy. If it wasn't KKK gangs
wreaking havoc, it was random white mobs raising hell, ambushing blacks, and
murdering them .
The American Revolutionary War would be the correct answer
